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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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How powerful is a Pakistani nuclear bomb?
Comparatively not that powerful. The largest Pakistan has that we suspect could be most likely no higher then a 500 kiloton nuclear warhead while the United States and Russia for example operate or have operated 30, 40, even 50 megaton nuclear devices. A 500 kiloton nuke is about 1% the power of a 50 megaton nuke. However, they operate about 70-90 nuclear warheads, making not only the weapon, but the number of them a significant nuclear deterrent for the country.
What was the name of the plane in the drop the Atom bomb?
Enola Gay. It was a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets the mother of the pilot of the plane, Paul Tibbets.
The U.S. bomber "Enola Gay" dropped the fission bomb "Little Boy" on August 6, 1945. Then on August 9, 1945, the Bockscar dropped a second fission (atomic) bomb, named "Fat Man" on the city of Nagasaki.
Who had nuclear weapons first?
Whilst Japan started a nuclear weapons project in October 1939 and Germany in September 1939, the United States was the first country to successfully use a nuclear weapon in war.
A project conducted during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb which was called the Manhattan Project. It was led by the United States, with British participation, also employing many exiled Jewish scientists from Germany, Hungary, Holland and Italy. The first nuclear weapon was detonated as a test by the United States at the Trinity site on July 16, 1945.
There are claims from an enciphered Japanese diplomatic signal sent from Stockholm to Tokyo in December 1944 which claim that Nazi Germany first used a nuclear weapon against Soviet forces south of Kursk in June 1943. Sop far there has been no corroboration of this message.
There are also several credible claims that a Nazi nuclear weapon was tested at the Baltic Island of Rugen in October 1944.
What was process of the atomic bomb?
There are several processes that happen in atomic bombs, the main ones are:
- Fission bombs - hydrodynamics, neutron chain reaction, fission.
- Fusion bombs - hydrodynamics, radiation transport, thermonuclear fusion, fission.
Many other secondary processes occur also.
Is nuclear bomb a mod in Minecraft?
Yes, there a Nuclear Bomb mods for Minecraft. There are also mods that have more explosives, including nuclear bombs. YellowYoshi101 out!
If nuclear war breaks out how many ICBMs can US missile defense shoot down as of today?
Cannot be determined.
The 1972 ABM treaty between the US and USSR limited each side to two ABM installations: one to protect its capital city and one to protect ICBM silos. The 1974 ABM treaty reduced this to one installation only. With the complications created by MIRVed missiles the US never formally developed its allowed single installation under these treaties.
Later treaties banned MIRVed missiles and with Star Wars development under Reagan and Bush there was much talk of abrogating the ABM treaties and implementing a blanket countrywide ABM defense system. But no such system resulted at the time.
This is about where I quit following the issue. However I have been informed that modern Patriot missiles could be used as they have performed well in Iraq against conventionally armed IRBMs. However their performance against nuclear armed ICBMs and SLBMs has yet to be determined. Also their use in that role to defend more than one location would be an abrogation of the ABM treaties, which I believe to still be in force.
Nuclear Terrorism is when a person uses nuclear power to kill or hurt people in the same or different country in which they are living in. Nuclear power can kill millions because the radiation will keep rippling all over the globe.
The effects of fallout are finite as the material is decaying, even in an immediate fallout plume one would rarely need to stay in a fallout shelter (if one was available) longer than about 3 months, after that radiation is barely above normal background levels. It doesn't automatically kill millions.
Nuclear Terrorism is primarily the threat of use of nuclear weapons, either overtly or clandestinely, to instill fear in the people of a country or part of a country. In that sense it differs little from other forms of Terrorism (e.g. suicide bombs, mail bombs, subway gas attacks).
The Limited Test Ban Treaty forbids nuclear testing in every area but?
The Limited Test Ban Treaty forbids nuclear testing in all areas except underground. Nuclear testing in the atmosphere, under water, and in outer space are all banned.
How to always have a nuke on modern warfare 2?
well that just depends on how good you are, but i think if you can get a nuke every game you are amazing!
What year did India detonated its first nuclear weapon?
India detonated it's first nuclear weapon on 1974at (POKRAN)a desert area in RAJASTHAN.
What is the provisions for exemption from the TASP test?
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How long does it take to simulate a nuclear weapons test?
That will depend on many variables (e.g. type of computer, detail of simulation, period of simulated, complexity of weapon being tested).
A few years ago I wrote a very simplified program to simulate a basic spherical implosion atomic bomb weapon design using one of my small Linux based desktop computers running an ARM processor. A typical simulation of roughly the first 20 microsecond of the explosion (beginning from the last few microseconds of the implosion compression of the core) took 2 to 3 minutes of realtime. I made no attempt to develop code for the complex multistage hydrogen bomb designs or even boosted fission designs due to the difficulty of writing the equations for ignition of thermonuclear fusion.
Using the supercomputers that the weapons labs have available they can simulate the full process from the firing of the detonators on the outside of the explosive lenses for several minutes after the complete vaporization of the outer casing. While I have no access to these Top Secret Restricted Data classified programs and thus cannot give a reasonable estimate of how much realtime it takes for one weapons simulation, even if it takes hours (or days) it is much less expensive to run these simulations than to take the weapon, all the instrumentation, the test crew, etc. to a test site and perform the test for real.
The important issue is not the time to simulate but the cost ratio between simulation and testing.
Why does my engine go dead every time you stop but starts up immediately?
If you've got any automatic transmission maybe your torque converter isn't disengaging. Or maybe it just needs a tuneup.
Did the soviet union have hydrogen bomb before the us?
No and yes. Lets look at a timeline.
- 1952, US detonates first hydrogen bomb: Ivy Mike. This device is 6.67 feet (2.03 m) in diameter and 20.33 feet (6.19 m) in height and weighed about 54 tons used a mixture of liquid deuterium and tritium as fuel and required a cryogenic plant weighing about 28 tons to supply ordinary liquid hydrogen to keep it cold. Obviously this was not a practical weapon that could be carried by airplane, but just a proof of concept test device.
- 1953, USSR detonates a deliverable weapon they called "a type of hydrogen bomb": RDS-6 (Joe 4 in the US). The first dry fueled "hydrogen bomb", using alternating layers of uranium-235 and lithium-6 deuteride. Today we would call this a boosted fission atomic bomb, not a hydrogen bomb.
- 1954, US detonates several dry hydrogen bombs using lithium-6 deuteride as fuel in Operation Castle. Castle Bravo is the first. Following the success of the Castle Bravo device, a test of a miniaturized version of the Ivy Mike device that could just barely be carried by a B-36 bomber (the largest bomber at the time) was canceled. Castle Romeo is a fully weaponized device designed to be carried by a B-36 bomber, fielded as the EC-17 (EC means emergency capability) that year and with a system of retarding parachutes added (to allow the delivery bomber to escape the blast so the crew can survive) as the MK-17 in early 1955.
- 1955, USSR detonates their first hydrogen bomb: RDS-37. It was the first hydrogen bomb tested by airdrop from a bomber.
Is a nuclear bomb is as powerful to destroy a city?
Edward Teller proposed building a 10 gigaton fusion bomb. Such a bomb could easily destroy everything in any of one of the small eastern states (e.g. Rhode Island, Delaware, New Jersey, Vermont). A 5 to 10 megaton fusion bomb could destroy large cities like New York, Chicago, Oakland. Even the ~20 kiloton fission bombs of WW2 destroyed typical cities (except their outskirts) in Japan.
So, yes.
Which is stronger Nuclear Bomb or Hydrogen Bomb?
Nuclear bombs is all types of bombs that use nuclear energy. It is not a type of bomb,just a category of bombs. hydrogen bomb is the strongest bomb ever, and its blast yield can go up to 100megatons of TNT.
What happens to confiscated weapons?
Most of the time they are either destroyed or awarded to the agency who seized them.
Whats the difference between an atom bomb and a hydrogen bomb?
The atomic bomb was a pure fission device, utilsing compression of a sub-critical uranium (Little Boy) (or plutonium: the Fat Man nuclear weapon) to cause an explosion.
The H-bomb is a 'hybrid' device utilising a 'primary' charge that is effectivly an atomic bomb but a 'secondary' charge is also used, a container of hydrogen (deuterium and/or tritium) which undergoes fusion due to the heat/pressure/neutrons released by the primary.
Atom: pure fission
H-bomb: fission/fusion hybrid
There are two forces responsible for radioactivity: the Strong nuclear force and the Weak nuclear force.
How far could the nuclear missiles in Cuba travel?
They could have hit targets in roughly half the territory of the 48 contiguous states.
Who made the first Soviet nuke?
The first nuclear bomb used in combat was the MK-I Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima August 6, 1945. It was built by the US.
However its inventor was Leo Szilard in 1933 in London 12 years earlier.
