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What is conventional vs nuclear weapons?

Anonymous

∙ 12y ago

Updated: 9/23/2023

Conventional explosives get their energy entirely from chemistry; the outer shell of electrons.

Nuclear explosives get their energy from the nucleus. There is lots more energy there.

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∙ 12y ago

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a conventional and nuclear military buildup that the Soviets could not afford

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What was the nature of warfare in Vietnam?

The war escalated from a guerrilla war into a conventional war (minus nuclear weapons).

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How much worse if at all is a nuclear weapon then a massive number of conventional weapons?

It depends upon what you mean by "conventional" weapons. However, nuclear weapons are far more devastating than conventional weapons because of their inherent atomic components; further are spread over a larger "target" area, thus wreak more havoc and destruction, as in "fall-out" (the aftermath). Just study your history and see what devastation our atomic bomb wroght upon Japan. Conventional? Probably limited in (their) scope of damage.

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