Want this question answered?
You see, you do not have to be authorized to have a nuclear weapon arsenal. All you need is the budget and the physicists to develop it. Nicolas Dupont
Manhattan Engineering District
Manhattan project
The meaning of the word nuclear weapon, is a weapon that has a nuclear warhead on it.
Not too likely. Does Cuba have the infrastructure to develop a nuclear weapon? Will any country sell a nuclear weapon to Cuba? More likely that terrorists will obtain a nuclear weapon either from a form Soviet Republic, or a small state such as North Korea, Pakistan or India.
This nuclear weapon is called an atomic bomb or a nuclear bomb
An atomic weapon is an alternative name for a nuclear weapon, a weapon which derives its energy from the nuclear reactions of either fusion or fission.
Nuclear weapon detonations
If by "bomb" you mean a conventional explosive weapon, then the nuclear weapon is more powerful.
it was called the Manhattan Projectthe code name for the American project set up in 1942 to develop an atom bomb. The project culminated in 1945 with the detonation of the first nuclear weapon, at White Sands in New Mexico.
* Earthquake Richter 5.0 = 32 kilotons nuclear weapon, like was used at Nagasaki * Earthquake Richter 6.0 = 1 megaton nuclear weapon * Earthquake Richter 7.0 = 32 megaton nuclear weapon * Earthquake Richter 7.1 = 50 megaton nuclear weapon, Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever tested * Earthquake Richter 8.0 = 1 gigaton nuclear weapon, much larger than anything ever made
The first country to develop nuclear elements I'm not sure, but the first country to develop a nuclear weapon was the united states. Also the former soviet union has the most nuclear missiles in the world but they are from the cold war, old and outdated, America has sophisticated missile systems that can sent a warhead almost anywhere on the planet