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Nuclear Weapons
This category is for questions about weapons that use nuclear fission or fusion to gain explosive power.
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Nuclear power is powerful enough to tale over from fossil fuels as its source wont run out for thousands of years, but the problem with it is that for the radioactive waste to decompose or to just stop being radioactive takes thousands of years. Which presents a threat to all life as radiation is highly dangerous and obviously kills.
The waste can be destroyed, but it is incredibly expensive, so is buried deep underground instead. Obviously activists argue about this way of dealing with the waste but there are not really any other options.
Powerstations must be built properly and cost millions or even a billion pounds, all safety checks must be put in place and there must be no slacks in its production as if ever a powerstation goes into meltdown, the results could be disastrous.
So why not natural resources? To be honest I'm all up for natural resources, but the demand for power is rapidly increasing, and to suddenly downsize to a lower power source, when the need for energy is growing, is not practical. To supply countries with a sustainable amount of power, fossil fuels and nuclear power seem the only way forward.
Anyway i hope I've helped, if theres anything I've missed or got wrong please correct me!!!
Does Canada have nuclear weapons?
Plutonium is always produced by using uranium fuel in a nuclear reactor, but it stays in the spent fuel unless this is processed. I don't think Canada has any processing capability for separating out the plutonium, but you need to ask the question to the Canadian authority
Should third world countries be permitted to produce nuclear weapons?
There is no right or wrong answer to this question.
On one hand, a nuclear weapon allows a smaller nation the ability to fight back against a larger one. For instance, if Poland was a nuclear power in 1939, how might it have changed the history of WWII if Berlin had been destroyed by a nuclear weapon?
So nuclear weapons give nations a great weapon that could cause other nations to think twice before attacking.
Also having nuclear weapons could be a great sense of pride and of progress. If your nation has the ability to process and maintain a nuclear arsenal, then your nation can do almost anything it sets itself to do.
There is also a false belief that two nations with nuclear weapons have never gone to war. Many people forget that both India and Pakistan have gone to war while also being nuclear armed. Additionally, India and China have also fought.
On the other hand, 3rd world nations are prone to unstable governments, corruption, lax security, and possibly even a bad command and control mechanism for when and how to use nuclear weapons.
One of the great concerns right now is Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. Pakistan is a nation rife with corruption and unknown allegiences of many in its government. If the government were to collapse and the military found itself in a civil war, where would the nuclear weapons go? Who would control them? You can imagine the outcome if a member of Lashkar-e-Tayyba or al-Qa'ida were to get their hands on a nuclear device.
Additionally, it could cause an arms race and cause a domino affect of sorts. If one nation in a region gets nuclear weapons, the others will fear for their safety and start building their own and then neighbors of those countries will do the same. With heightened tensions, it would become much more likely for one nation to accidentally or intentionally detonate a nuclear weapon on their neighbor and ignite a regional nuclear war.
So again, there is no right answer. Not all third world nations are on the verge of collapse and could easily maintain a nuclear arsenal. I suppose it comes down to motive and intent.
it matters what launches it not the nuke unless you want the AoE its probaly a citys worth of miles
Nuclear weapons are devices. Is the statement gramatically correct?
It is, but it is not very descriptive.
How about"Nuclear weapons are devices created to kill many with extreme heat and explosive power."
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What level do you have to be on to get the nuke in cod modern wafare 2?
you need to have it unlocked to get it. it doesnt matter on the level as long as you have it unlocked
There are a few who claim the idea, but president Harry Truman first approved one to be built for the Korean war, 1950-1953. Richard Lawrence Garwin, American physicist, produced a design in 1952 at IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University.
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The original ideas for the hydrogen bomb came up early in the Manhattan Project, but it is unknown who first proposed them.
Edward Teller became fixated on the idea of the hydrogen bomb and the only way that Oppenheimer could get Teller to continue doing any work on the atomic bomb and stop taking other scientists away from their critical atomic bomb tasks to work on Teller's hydrogen bomb ideas was to just let him work on his hydrogen bomb ideas and just contact Teller as needed to consult on the atomic bomb work.
Edward Teller completed his first hydrogen bomb design, which he called "The Super" in the fall of 1945. This design was tested by numerical simulation on the newly completed ENIAC in december 1945 through january 1946, and shown to be not workable. Further work on hydrogen bomb designs was effectively suspended (although Edward Teller was allowed to continue "dabbling" at designing one).
In 1950 Stanislaw Ulam (a mathematician working with a team on producing higher yield more efficient atomic bombs) went to consult with Teller on an idea his team had proposed to use the explosion of one atomic bomb to compress and trigger a second atomic bomb. Teller suddenly realized this was the idea he needed to make his "Super" bombs work: use an atomic bomb not just to heat his hydrogen bomb (as he had done in all earlier designs) but to compress his hydrogen bomb too. Computer numerical simulations confirmed this would work. Serious design work on hydrogen bombs resumed at Los Alamos.
The first hydrogen bomb using the new "Teller-Ulam" design was built and tested in 1952, but by then Teller was fed up with his working arrangements at Los Alamos and quit. He convinced the military and AEC that they needed a second nuclear weapons development lab that he would have absolute control over. Slightly later in 1952 Lawrence Livermore Labs opened with Edward Teller as director.
What Treaty banning nuclear weapons?
i believe it was the nuclear nonproliferation treaty.
No treaty bans nuclear weapons. The nonproliferation treaty simply tries to limit them to countries that already have them. But countries that don't sign can still try to make them.
How long would it take for radiation to hit Los Angeles if a nuclear bomb hit San Francisco?
Direct radiation could not get from an explosion at San Francisco to Los Angeles, as they are beyond the horizon and this type of radiation follows straight lines.
Fallout and the radiation it carries is harder to predict as it is carried by winds. However as the winds on the west coast primarily blow inland (west to east) not north to south, it is very unlikely that any fallout from an explosion at San Francisco would get to Los Angeles (although unusual weather patterns could cause some to go south).
Why should the US and the world in general be concerned with nuclear development in North Korea?
North Korea is a Communist state which is on the verge of economic and social collapse. It supports terrorism around the world. Its leader, Kim Jong Il, seems mentally unstable and not in touch with reality. If North Korea has, or gets working nuclear weapons, the possibility that it might use them is too great to be permitted. Other nuclear armed nations have demonstrated a responsible attitude and reserve those weapons as an ultimate deterrent, never to be used except in the last extremity. In general, no one trusts North Korea to behave that way.
Does atomic explosion and nuclear explosion mean the same?
This question could be easily misconstrued. While atomic and nuclear explosion mean the same thing, and all atomic bombs are nuclear bombs, not all nuclear bombs are atomic bombs. The more powerful nuclear bombs are hydrogen bombs, and there is a very important fundamental difference between the two.
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A bomb is fission - the splitting of an atom
H bomb is fusion - the joining together of atoms (and much more powerfull)
How do you abort a nuclear missile in flight?
this information you are seeking is classified so you need a security clearance to gain this information and nobody with this knowledge will answer a classified question on a Q and A site.
To the best of my knowledge, this cannot be done; no "destruct code" can be sent, once launched an ICBM, IRBM, or SLBM is entirely on its own and will guide itself to its target. This is done for security reasons to prevent an enemy from stealing the codes and disabling our missiles. There is a device called a PAL in each nuclear weapon to prevent it from being armed/launched, but it is classified (as the first poster stated) and you would need a Top Secret-Q clearance, have "need to know", and sign a 25 year or longer NDA to gain access to such documents. Anyone having had such access could not discuss them on the net, or anywhere else, until their NDAs expired (and they still might have to contact their security officer to see what they could disclose even then).
Some declassified information on early 1960s PALs is available on the net (I've seen it) as these types of PALs are obsolete and have been replaced with better ones, but I'll leave it up to you to find them if you really have the interest. Also a FOIA request or MDR request might get you some highly redacted documents, eventually.
What cities are most likely to be the targets of nuclear attack?
Washington DC. is a likely place for a nuke to be shot at because it is the U.S.'s capital and our president lives there. Another place is New York City just because there are so many people there.
What is the name of the first nuclear submarine?
The USS Nautilus (SSN-571), launched on January 21, 1954 and commissioned on September 30, 1954 at Electric Boat in Groton, CT, was the first nuclear powered submarine to be built. Designed by Naval Engineer Hyman G. Rickover ( Admiral Rickover, "Father of the Nuclear Navy"), the Nautilus broke all records of the day for submerged endurance, including the first submerged transit of the Geographic North Pole.
Essentially built as a proving and test design for future nuclear vessels, its successful pressurized water reactor design led to the current nuclear fleet we have today, with a spotless record of operation of nearly 60 years. The Nautilus is now a part of the Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton, CT, where she was originally built by General Dynamics Electric Boat Division between 1952 and 1954.
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What country is currently practicing nazism?
Nazism is the name given specifically to the regime of Adolf Hitler in Germany from 1933-45. Thus, when Hitler died, so did Nazism. Neo-Nazism, a term used to describe a new wave of people who agree with Hitler's policies, has believers all over the world, but no regime, whether Nazi or Neo-Nazi, currently exists.
Where is safest place in the world during a nuclear war?
There are many people who believe they can survive a Nuclear War, but in reality it's just psychological propaganda. Unless you're in an underground, self-sustaining shelter or in a submarine at sea, it's a losing battle from the outset, and even if you're in either one, you can't stay there forever. A limited battle, probably, but multiple high yield detonations will produce quite a bit of Alpha and Beta contamination that will eventually contaminate the food and water supply. We know from experience that the above ground tests conducted many years ago contaminated food sources (e.g., milk with Strontium 90), which is one of the primary reasons that above ground testing was banned as part of the NTBT in 1963.
Even if you survive the initial blasts, long term contamination or radiation exposure will eventually get you. The psychological effects cannot be underestimated either. Many of us in the submarine force, knowing we would likely survive a nuclear war, weren't thrilled at the prospect of surviving, knowing what kind of world would await us.
Why is depleted uranium used in weapons?
Because uranium has a very high density (19,1 g/cm3) it is useful for military vehicles armors (to reduce the possibility of penetration) or for projectiles (to increase the penetration).
Also uranium is a source of pollution or illness in the invaded country.
