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square leg
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square legnoun
A fielding position on the leg side, square of the batsman's wicket, between leg gully and midwicket; a fielder in that position.
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Square Leg
Square Leg was a 1980 British government home defence exercise that assessed the effects of a Soviet nuclear attack. It was assumed that 131 nuclear weapons would fall on Britain with a total yield of 205 megatons. This was felt to be a reasonably realistic scenario, although the report stated that a total strike in excess of 1,000 megatons would not be unexpected. Mortality was estimated at 29 million; serious injuries at 7 million; short-term survivors at 19 million. Square Leg was criticised for a number of reasons: the weapons used were exclusively in the high yield megaton range—with an average of 1.5 megatons per bomb—whereas a realistic attack based on known Soviet capabilities would have seen mixed weapons yields, including many missile-based warheads in the low hundred kiloton range; no targets in Inner London are attacked; towns such as Eastbourne are hit for no obvious reason. Operation Square Leg was one of the exercises used to estimate the destructiveness of a Soviet nuclear attack in the 1984 BBC production Threads.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of square leg in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of square leg in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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