Megadeath (or megacorpse) is a term for one million deaths by nuclear explosion. The term was used by scientists and thinkers who strategized likely outcomes of all-out nuclear warfare. The Oxford English Dictionary`s first citation for the term is a 1953 article from the Birmingham News, and it appears again in 1959 in the New Statesman. The ter.... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadeath