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megadeath
[ meg-uh-deth ]
noun
- a unit of one million deaths: used in estimating or predicting the fatalities that would occur in a nuclear war.
megadeath
/ ˈ³¾É›É¡É™ËŒ»åɛθ /
noun
- the death of a million people, esp in a nuclear war or attack
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Origin of megadeath1
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Even the nuclear realists, busy as their minds must be with calculations of acceptable levels of megadeath, would not want to overlook anything.
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“You don’t know whether they’re manufacturing pantyhose or megadeath,†he once said, in an often-cited observation about the people who might have been working inside the warehouses his pictures showed.
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They wore white shirts with skinny ties and used a slide rule called the "Rand bomb damage effect calculator" to estimate megadeaths.
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