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ton
a measure of weight or mass. Includes short (or USA) 1 ton=2000 lb and long (or UK) 1 ton=2240 lb. See also tonne.
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One kiloton equals 1,000 tons of a regular explosive, such as TNT.
North Korea goes nuclear by Junior Scholastic
By simply dropping a 100-pound mass of highly enriched uranium onto another similar mass from a height of about six feet, terrorists could create a nuclear reaction that would produce a blast of about 5-10 kilotons--the blast from the Hiroshima atomic bomb was 15 kilotons.
Nuclear waste: our far-flung nuclear weapons factories haven't built ... by Roth, Zachary / Washington Monthly
He not only withdrew the United States from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in June 2002 but, according to the May 21, 2003, New York Times, has recently asked Congress to lift the ten-year ban on research, development, and production of nuclear weapons of less than five kilotons.
World domination via nuclear weapons by Swomley, John / The Humanist
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