Megadeaths

Word MEGADEATHS
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What do we mean by megadeaths?

One million deaths, especially as a unit of measure in reference to nuclear warfare.

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In so doing they forestalled many more 'megadeaths' that would have been sure to follow if the war had not ended. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also while Torch of Freedom had some extremely emotional moments almost on par with the ones in At All Costs, both the treacheries and the resulting massive deaths in Storm from the Shadows and the huge devastation and megadeaths that Oyster Bay inflicted are less emotional since only lots of secondary characters die as opposed to the main ones in the above mentioned novels. ❋ Liviu (2010)

I'm not sure the era of megadeaths in war is necessarily over. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

It took 7 megadeaths in Germany, and 6 in Japan to help those better educated and more intelligent peoples to see our point of view, in 1945. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The enormity of that toll deserves to be described in terms of megadeaths, mega being a factor of 106. ❋ Zbigniew Brzezinski (1993)

But though fascism won many adherents in interwar Europe, it was Hitlerism and Leninism that emerged as the two most powerful and destructive metamyths of the twentieth century, both dominating much of the political life of the twentieth century while causing most of the historically unprecedented megadeaths inflicted during that century. ❋ Zbigniew Brzezinski (1993)

The twentieth century—the century of metamyths and of megadeaths—spawned false notions of total control, derived from arrogant assertions of total righteousness. ❋ Zbigniew Brzezinski (1993)

The massive failure of totalitarian metamyths, the extraordinary scale of the megadeaths exacted in the name of dogmas, and the currently more pervasive intellectual skepticism regarding the practicality of utopias, makes it unlikely that a self-destructive political wave will replicate the tragic errors of the twentieth century. ❋ Zbigniew Brzezinski (1993)

"Special weapons" most often meant nuclear weapons, and here the word was used to avoid offending the sensibilities of those for whom "nuclear" connoted mushroom clouds and megadeaths; it was as though a change of wording could effect a change of substance, yet another characteristic of governments all over the world. ❋ Clancy, Tom, 1947- (1989)

Other; Cold War nightmares of mushroom clouds and megadeaths; the post-traumatic fallout of the AIDS pandemic; and free-floating anxieties about viral plagues and bioengineered outbreaks ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yes, they were industrial, and therefore potentially military centers in the crosshairs, but you can't pretend we didn't know there would be civilian megadeaths within the blast radius can you? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Next year the megadeaths ~ whole nations wiped out as if they'd never existed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Libertarian Alliance has existed for so long, and has, apart from being noticed by a few thousand academics, achieved so little reduction in the socialist-megadeaths-per-year count, that one begins in the evening of one's life to despair of any improvement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It also seems to work in a vaccuum where US presence wasn’t creating megadeaths by virtue of it’s existense. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Regarding Ed Marshall’s comment about the U.S. causing “megadeaths” in Vietnam: it’s hard to see how backing the South up with air power in the event of another invasion by the North would have resulted in more deaths than followed the Communist victory. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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