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		m_eiman on May 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An old artifact kept in a vault outside Paris is n... Megatons of TNT equivalent for big bombs.

bdowling on May 17, 2019 [–]

Are those metric tons or imperial tons? If metric, why aren't they gigakilograms (teragrams?) of TNT?

bdowling on May 17, 2019 | [–]

Answering my own question, "megatons of TNT" does refer to metric tons.

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