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What is the most sophisticated weapon of world war 2 before the atom bomb?
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∙ 14y ago
The atomic bomb. the strongest bomb in the world is the nitrom bomb!
Not sure what the first poster meant by "nitrom bomb". If they meant NEUTRON bomb, then they would be correct only in that the neutron bomb was designed to maximize casualties through radiation instead of the heat and blast of other bombs. The explosive "yield" of most neutron bomb designs is in the kiloton range. The most powerful atomic device ever detonated was the Tsar Bomba device detonated by the USSR on October 30, 1961. The original design would have created a 100 megaton explosion, but it was reduced for testing to a 50 megaton device. The test device is believed to be the only one of its type ever built.
The "strongest" weapon of World War 2 was indeed the atomic bomb - although their combined explosive yield was still only about 1/1000 of that of the Tsar Bomba device. Even so, the atomic bombs were themselves about a thousand times as powerful as any of the conventional bombs used during the 2nd world war.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agoBarnes Wallis's bouncing bomb, TallBoy and Grand Slam
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What was the most powerful weapon ever built?
Atom Bomb
When was the first atom bomb made?
The first nuclear weapon was constructed by the US in the first half of 1945. This weapon, which was set atop a tower (static test) and code-name Trinity, was detonated on July 16, 1945. The second and third weapons were built later in the year, and these were the pair that was dropped on Japan.
What war did the US drop the atom bomb on japan?
World World 2
In which year and in what city did the first atom bomb dropped?
The U.S. dropped a nuclear weapon called Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945.
What is the working principle of atom bomb?
A fission weapon: Subcriticality before the device is supposed to be detonated, supercriticality when it is. This is normally achieved by slamming two subcritical blocks of fissile material together using conventional explosives, to create one supercritical block which will sustain a fission reaction. A fusion weapon: these normally involve stages of fission reactions as above, which finally create an environment that can sustain nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes, which releases far more energy, relatively speaking, than fission.
What weapon made them more powerful in world war 2?
The Atom Bomb
What is the smallest nuclear weapon?
Atom bomb. Get it? Atom :D
What type of bomb replaced the atom bomb as the new weapon of mass destruction after World War 2?
Hydrogen bomb
What was the most powerful weapon ever built?
Atom Bomb
What nuclear material was the atom bomb made of?
Uranium 235, or plutonium, depending on weapon design
What fuel was used for the bomb in World War 2?
If you mean the atomic bomb, the atom. (Hence the name). The element was Uranium-235, a very difficult one to obtain, which led to the development of the Thermonuclear warhead, the most powerful weapon still today, made from the Hydrogen atom.
What was the most powerful weapon used?
Thus far in history, I'd say the atom bombs of WW2.
Which weapon was used to make the Japanese surrender in world war 2?
The Atomic Bomb or Atom Bomb for short. The U.S. dropped it on Nagasaki and Hiroshima but also killed many U.S. soldiers that were stationary there.
What can a atom bomb cause?
The atom bomb is a type of nuclear weapon. Nuclear weapons can kill entire cities, make air quality unsafe, and kill plants and animals.
In ww1 who made the atom bomb?
No one made an atom bomb in World war 1. It took to the very end of World war 2 for the Atomic bomb to be invented. Exactly who invented is is a bit tricky. There were several different scientists that had come up with the idea separately. But the man mostly associated with turning it into a working weapon is Dr Robert Oppenheimer.
What was going on before the atom bomb occurred?
Killing of human beings all around the globe due the second world war.
What is an atom fission machine called?
An atomic fission machine (device) might be called a nuclear reactor or a nuclear weapon.
