What does kton stand for?

Kiloton (energy released in exploding 1000 US tons of TNT)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Chidambaram, Kakodkar claimed that Operation Shakti conducted in May 1998 at the Pokhran testing range in Rajasthan, gave the country nuclear deterrence capability of upto 200 kilotons.

Pokhran II was a success: Kakodkar (updated)

But there was no crater for an assumed 45- kiloton device ( in the 1998 explosion).

N- TESTS

The report is the result of a workshop held in 2008 to assess the ability of emergency services, health care, and federal, state and local authorities to respond to a nuclear weapon equivalent to 10 kilotons of TNT detonated during a work day in the central business district of a large U.

U.S. not fully prepared for nuclear attack

The October 2006 blast was estimated at less than one kiloton.

NKorea hails nuclear test as UN weighs response

The October 2006 blast was estimated at less than one kiloton.

NKorea hails nuclear test as UN weighs response

3 quake, while Russian experts estimated it was a 10-20 kiloton explosion.

WORLD OUTRAGED BY KOREAN NUKE BLAST; Brown and Obama in warning over ...

and French officials have said the 2006 test measured less than a kiloton; 1 kiloton is equal to the force produced by 1,000 tons of TNT.

Universal criticism ensnares N. Korea; Reaction to 2nd nuclear test; ...

One kiloton equals 1,000 tons and indicates the explosive yield of about that much weight of TNT.

NKorea says US hostile, ready for more rockets