noun
- one million deaths, especially as a unit for measuring casualties in nuclear war
Usage: technical; military planning
Examples
- Military strategists calculated potential megadeaths from nuclear exchange.
- The study estimated 50 megadeaths in a full-scale nuclear war.
- Cold War planners used megadeath as a grim statistical measure.
- The term megadeath emerged during nuclear weapons analysis.
- Defense analysts discussed scenarios involving multiple megadeaths.
- The concept of megadeath shaped nuclear deterrence theory.