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TON. Twenty hundred weight, each hundred weight being one hundred and twelve pounds avoirdupois. See act of congress of Aug. 30, 1842, c. 270, s. 20. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The more powerful of those bombs--the one that hit Hiroshima--had a force of 15 kilotons. 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. 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. |
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