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MEGATON [7 records]

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Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
DEF

One million tons or tonnes ...

OBS

megatonne; Mt: term and abbreviation standardized by Environment Canada and the Translation Bureau for use in the Air Pollutant Emission Inventory Report.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
DEF

Unité de masse valant un million de tonnes.

OBS

mégatonne; Mt : terme et abréviation normalisés par Environnement Canada et le Bureau de la traduction dans le cadre de l'Inventaire des émissions de polluants atmosphériques.

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • CBRNE Weapons
DEF

A nuclear weapon, the yield of which is measured in terms of millions of tons of trinitrotoluene explosive equivalents.

OBS

megaton weapon : term and definition standardized by NATO in the AAP-6 standard published in 1998, but not included in the 2014 version.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes CBRNE
DEF

Arme nucléaire dont la puissance est exprimée en millions de tonnes équivalentes de trinitrotoluène.

OBS

arme mégatonnique : terme et définition normalisés par l'OTAN dans la norme AAP-6 de 1998, mais non repris dans l'édition de 2014.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Armas QBRNE
DEF

Arma nuclear cuya potencia se expresa en millones de toneladas equivalentes de trinitrotolueno (TNT).

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Record 3 2007-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
  • CBRNE Weapons
DEF

An explosive force equivalent to that of a million tons of trinitrololuene.

OBS

megaton; MT : term and abbreviation officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
  • Armes CBRNE
DEF

Unité de mesure de la puissance destructrice des bombes atomiques, équivalant à celle d'un million de tonnes de T.N.T. (trinitrotoluène).

OBS

mégatonne; MT : terme et abréviation uniformisés par le ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • CBRNE Weapons

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes CBRNE

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Peace-Keeping Operations
  • Arms Control
  • CBRNE Weapons

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de maintien de la paix
  • Contrôle des armements
  • Armes CBRNE
OBS

Reproduit du lexique «Disarmament and Peace Keeping/Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Emergency Management
OBS

Constructed over a two year period when nuclear fear was at its zenith, the Central Emergency Government Headquarters began operation in 1961. Intended to be a secret relocation centre for government leaders, civil servants and military personnel in the event of a nuclear war, it quickly became the focus of media and public speculation.

OBS

The Central Emergency Government Headquarters was built at Carp near Ottawa with a transmitting station a few miles away. Essentially a hardened concrete box of four levels, surrounded by a gravel envelope and buried in sandy soil, the Central Headquarters(irrevently referred to as the Diefenbunker) was capable of withstanding a 5 megaton hydrogen bomb blast with a ground zero at 1. 1 miles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Gestion des urgences

Spanish

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Record 7 1995-12-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Arms Control
  • CBRNE Weapons
DEF

megaton : am explosive force equivalent to that of a million tons of(TNT) trinitrotoluene.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contrôle des armements
  • Armes CBRNE
DEF

Se dit d'un engin dont la puissance destructrice est de l'ordre d'une mégatonne, ou supérieure.

Spanish

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