kiloton

The accepted ene: .y equivalent for 1,000

tons of TNT(trinitrotoluene),

A nominal

atomic bomb, similar to those dropped over
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has a TNT equivalent
of 20 kilotons, or 20,000 tons.

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you

Manhattan Pro ject

The sum total of all activity which resulted

mark-mod-alt

An abbreviation for mark-modificatim-

in successful development of the Atomic Bomb,
alteration, the basic system of the Atomic
Snergy Commission for nomenclature of major
assemblies of atomic weapons, which indicates
the over-all design of a major assembly and
changes thereto,

marriage program

The development effort conducted for the
purpose of fitting atomic warheads to guided
missiles or special weapons to aircraft,

megaton

The accepted energy equivalent for 1,000,000

Moratorium

A temporary ban on nuclear testing which
resulted from international negotiations and

tons of TNT.

which began in the United States on 31 Oct. 1958.
nuclear- clond

The cloud phenomena which results from a

a specific nuclear detonation as differentia-

ted from atomspheric clouds, Radioactive
material which may or may not have resulted

from one specific muclear detonation. Early
muclear cloud sampling was concerned with the
visually recognizable cloud caused by a

specific detonation;

later world-wide

sampling was conducted in specific atmospheric
regions without regard to any specific cloud
formations,

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