Sentence examples for 2 megatons from inspiring English sources

In all of World War II, from 1939 to 1945, the total explosive power of all the bombs detonated, including the two A-bombs, was 2 million tons of TNT, or 2 megatons.

And now here's #2 Megaton.

That year, too, the US detonated a thermonuclear device of 10.4 megatons.

It included 12.8 megatons of smaller items such as microwaves or toasters and 18.8 megatons of "white goods" such as fridges, washing machines, dryers and other large appliances.

Wind conditions were also favourable; within hours, Manhattan looked as though it had taken 10 megatons.

The bomb was tested at approximately half yield (58 megatons) on Oct. 30, 1961.

That is the equivalent of more than 40 megatons of TNT.

On Sept. 8, 1968, Billaud supervised a second thermonuclear explosion, with a yield of 1.2 megatons.

And then 200 megatons of nuclear explosives go off over Britain, killing between 2.5 million and 9 million people instantly.

The bomb, codenamed Short Granite, had a yield of 0.3 megatons, the equivalent of 300,000 tons of TNT.

The Atomic Energy Commission, in announcing the Russian nuclear blast in the Arctic air, said it was "possibly as large as 50 megatons, but … more probably on the order of 30 megatons".