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TNT has a density of 1.654 grams per cubic centimetre. Thus, one megaton of TNT takes up 60.459 cubic metres.

To compare, a TEU - the space contained by a standard 8'-tall shipping container - is 36.317 cubic metres.

So, even scaled down, that "doomsday device" takes two shipping containers to carry ... without much room left over for the detonator. (Assuming you're using TNT, of course. Other explosives have different densities.)

I think you still misplace the decimal point...

1 cm^3 = 1.6 grams
1 dm^3 = 1.6 kg
1 m^3 = 1.6 tons

1000000 tons / (1.6 tons / 1 m^3) = 625000 m^3

or ~17000 shipping containers.

Just remember, a megaton of TNT is 10 times more mass than a Nimitz class aircraft carrier.