A unit of mass equal to one thousand megagrams.
1 The 260 - kiloton bomb floated gracefully down to earth on a billowing parachute.
2 The missile cache is right underneath here and it contains four thirty - kiloton warheads.
3 The spaceplane sensors registered an emp pulse equivalent to about a kiloton blast.
4 Finally there was the kiloton fusion nuke strapped to his side in its harness.
5 The kiloton nuke detonated at the bottom of a twenty-metre crater in the river.
6 The blast was estimated at the kiloton level, the metric used for tactical nuclear weapons.
7 Each mass should give about a two kiloton explosion.
8 If Nightshade railguns were indiscriminate, what the hell did he think a ten - kiloton Krait was?
9 It's small, electron compressed deuterium tritium core, I think; maybe point two of a kiloton blast.
10 Chas datavised the activation code into the kiloton bomb strapped in its harness at his side.
11 A lieutenant commander was assigned full-time to look after the torpedo and service its 10 - kiloton warhead.
12 Part of the Department of Energy's Operation Ranger program, "Easy" delivered a 1 - kiloton payload.
13 I issued the team leaders with kiloton nukes.
14 This is the detonator for the one - kiloton device.
15 By way of comparison, the bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima was a 15 - kiloton device.
16 Maybe not even a kiloton , because I don't have containment to keep the parts together very long.
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