aton
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- n the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the Pharaoh Akhenaten
- Other assessments of Akhenaton's religion render the Aton-Adonai connection less convincing.
- As a weapon, the 100-megaton bomb would be sheer waste, for there is no major city in the world that cannot be wiped out with one well-directed 20-meg-aton bomb.
- While other telescopes picked up the flashes of light generated by the multimeg aton impacts, only the space telescope could see details of the scars they left behind.