Word: megatonic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could easily pass for what he once was: a full-time schoolteacher. He wears thick glasses and is virtually blind in one eye; his face droops in a hangdog expression, and a habitual slouch seems to shrink his 6-ft. 3-in. frame. What places Shanker in the megaton range is the power he wields...
...agree on the method by which the number of MIRVs will be calculated. The nub of the problem is Moscow's new SS-18 monster missile. More than six times as powerful as the U.S. Minuteman III, the SS-18 can carry a single warhead delivering a 50-megaton explosive punch (creating a fireball 36 miles in diameter and blasting a 300-ft.-deep hole in granite), or it can be fitted with up to eight MIRVs...
EQUUS. The bizarre saga of a boy who blinds six horses with a metal spike. Galvanically theatrical, albeit specious in substance. The boy (Peter Firth) and his psychiatrist (Anthony Hopkins) give performances in the megaton range...
...superb cast, two performers are in the megaton range. Peter Firth makes Alan a fallen angel of anguish, and Anthony Hopkins' psychiatrist is a tour de force that should make any other Tony contender blanch...
What gives the Soviets this ability is the greater power of their rockets. The S59 and the new SS-18 have "throw-weights" capable of launching warheads packing 25 megatons, equal to 25 million tons of TNT. The most powerful U.S. rocket, the aging Titan 2 (of which 54 are still in operation), can accommodate only a ten-megaton warhead...