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   From: russotto@grace.speakeasy.net   
      
   In article ,   
   Jeff Strickland  wrote:   
   >   
   >I don't know that it was a Democrat or not, but a kiloton is a thousand-ton,   
   >so 18 kilotons is 18 thousand tons. I'm not sure this is a metric   
   >measurement...   
      
   Nowadays the kiloton is defined such that a gram of TNT is one   
   kilocalorie.  I suspect that back in 1945 it was more likely to have   
   been related to an American short ton rather than a metric ton,   
   though.   
      
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