To protect the country that made them or most countries use it to gain more protection of other contries or to threaten other countries. :)
The only country to ever use nuclear weapons in war is the United States with the two bombs they dropped on Japan. No other country has ever actually used a nuclear weapon.
at this this time (2013) russia has the most, closely followed by the US. other countries have no more than 1/10 of what these do.
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To protect the country that made them or most countries use it to gain more protection of other contries or to threaten other countries. :)
Japan was almost destroyed when the nuclear bomb were deployed. Tokyo and Kyoto were bomb with fire bombs which had more casualties than the nuclear bombs but compare the two, the nuclear bomb were more potent.
It is illegal for private individuals to prepare bombs of any type. But countries can do what they want to. Ownership of highly enriched Uranium, Uranium-233, or Plutonium by private individuals is illegal in the US and probably several other countries. Without one or the other no nuclear bomb can be built.
Atomic bombs are a type of Nuclear bomb and there are 2 types of nuclear bombs. The second type of nuclear bomb is a hydrogen bomb.
For making the nuclear reactor and other items like the nuclear bombs and other stuff
The only country to ever use nuclear weapons in war is the United States with the two bombs they dropped on Japan. No other country has ever actually used a nuclear weapon.
yes, both the US & USSR had stockpiles of several thousand nuclear weapons in that time period. other countries had a few hundred.
at this this time (2013) russia has the most, closely followed by the US. other countries have no more than 1/10 of what these do.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is responsible for stopping nuclear research in other countries.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is responsible for stopping nuclear research in other countries.
Neither the US nor Russia are making nuclear weapons of any kind at this time. Other countries however are making nuclear weapons; some are North Korea, India, and Pakistan.
Yes the United States still as nuclear weapons other countries with nuclear capability include Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and possibly Israel.