Nuclear Weapons

I believe you are referring to Albert Einstein.

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Amazing Grace and Chuck, 1987. Gregory Peck was everything an actor as president should be! Great movie, wish they'd release it on video.

Because the US already had offensive nuclear weapons in Turkey. They saw it as "balancing" things.

i think that its test and crush depths are still classified, but it is a safe bet that they can dive ~1000 ft. they normally operate way above that though.

No hydrogen bombs were dropped on Vietnam. No nuclear weapons of any kind were used in Vietnam.

Well, the official answer to this was that Truman figured, and probably rightly, that the Japanese would defend their homeland to the last living body and take as many Americans as they could with them. So, if he could get the Japanese to surrender based on the power of the A-Bomb (and he could prevent them from finding out that we actually had no more than the two that were dropped) he could save a lot of American lives.

The United States conducted nuclear testing in the Pacific primarily to develop and demonstrate its nuclear capabilities during the Cold War, particularly following World War II. The remote locations, such as the Marshall Islands, provided a controlled environment for testing while minimizing risks to populated areas. Additionally, these tests were crucial for the U.S. to gain strategic advantages over the Soviet Union and to assure its allies of its military strength. The tests also aimed to understand the effects of nuclear weapons and develop better defense mechanisms.

President Truman's chief priority in using the atomic bomb against Japan was to expedite the end of World War II and minimize American casualties. He believed that demonstrating the bomb's destructive power would compel Japan to surrender unconditionally, thereby avoiding a prolonged and costly invasion of the Japanese mainland. Additionally, the use of the bomb was seen as a way to assert U.S. dominance in post-war geopolitics, particularly in relation to the Soviet Union.

Nuclear weapons are typically launched through a highly secure and controlled process involving multiple layers of authentication and authorization to prevent unauthorized use. In the United States, for example, the President can order a nuclear strike using the "nuclear football," a briefcase containing communication tools and codes. The order is confirmed through a series of checks with military officials, and then transmitted to missile launch facilities or submarines equipped with nuclear missiles. Once the launch codes are verified, the weapons are activated and launched toward their targets.

Possibly one of the single shot .22 Short derringers- although there are miniature firearms that are about .12 caliber. The Kolbri automatic pistol was made in caliber 2.3mm, was small enough to fit on a keychain, but was more a curiosity than a weapon. There is a smiliar Swiss mini-gun revolver being made in limited numbers, but cannot be imported into the US.

a VERY powerful nuclear weapon i think its the most powerful one

Never, there has never been nuclear tests of any kind on Easter Island.

Yes, that was the June 12, 1982 protest in New York City's Central Park. It was a protest against nuclear weapons and for an end to the cold war arms race. One million people attended the protest.

A nuclear explosion would release highly radioactive material into the atmosphere (in the giant "mushroom cloud" that is formed). This radiation would then contaminate the areas in which it eventually fell (this is known as "fallout").

Fallout can be carried vast distances in the air by the wind before eventually falling to Earth. High levels of radioactivity can cause sickness, mutations and death. This radioactivity would remain at dangerous levels for a very long time and thus any ecosystem affected would also feel the consequences over a long period.

Masks would not have helped, the entire area of the plant was highly contaminated with strong gamma, beta, and neutron emitters. These are hard to shield against. Most of the firefighters had already received lethal doses by the time they finished setting up to fight the fire, so they just kept working because it had to be done until they were almost ready to collapse. At that point they were taken to a hospital to see their families and die as comfortably as they could in the condition they were in. Most of these firefighters received near record doses, several thousand REMs.

Codename was - The Manhattan Project.

The release of a large amount of radiation, the death of about 50 firefighters and plant staff, the evacuation of the neighbouring town and area.

Since fallout is created when a nuclear explosion lifts dirt and debris particles into the air and irradiates them, there is no way to 'stop' nuclear fallout from occurring except by never exploding a nuclear weapon on or near the ground. You CAN stop nuclear fallout from reaching you, though, if you have a good strong shelter that is lined with enough dirt or sand (or thick walls and ceilings using many feet of metal and/or concrete), etc.

In the event of an all out nuclear war, we may suffer from a "Nuclear Winter". The sky will turn murky and dark. The sun will not shine for hundreds of years, and every food or water source caught in the mist of the nuclear fallout will become irradiated or incinerated. Come Winter, everything will die off due to extreme freeze.

For limited tactical use of nuclear weapons the results will be less dramatic. None of the tests of nuclear weapons or the deployment of such systems at the end of WW2 caused any impact on the weather. Som radiosactive isotoes were noted in downwing rain and snow,

There are several reasons why this solution would be morally wrong, pragmatically impossible, and ineffective to solve the problem that the question seems to be attempting to solve.

The question usually has the logic the follows in this way: "Muslims cause events of terror such as 9-11 or attacks on Israel or riots against freedom of speech. If there were no Muslims these problems would evaporate. Therefore let's kill them all and a nuclear weapon is the most effective way to do so."

If we examine this, it quickly falls apart.

Firstly, it is a minority of Muslims who cause these problems. The vast majority of Muslims just wish to go to work, make a decent income, and come home to their families at the end of the day. The desire to murder people who do that type of activity is a criminal act of the highest degree.

Secondly, Muslim Extremists are not the only people who have sanctioned violence to achieve their objectives. The United States and Soviet Union jointly replaced the governments of or occupied over 70 countries, creating disastrous conditions the world over. Most people would agree that nuking the United States or Russia is not necessary, not just because its criminal, but because that would not prevent the American or Russian governments from retaliating and causing far more death and destruction. There are 1.7 billion Muslims in the World, making retaliation quite possible and undesirable.

Thirdly, the Muslims are not "just in one place". There are nearly 57 Muslim-Majority countries from Morocco and Mauritania in West Africa to Malaysia and Indonesia in Southeast Asia. It would take an incredibly large amount of nuclear weapons to destroy all of these communities and it would be sufficient to cause a nuclear winter, making life on Earth impossible. This fails to mention the Muslim communities living in non-Muslim-majority countries such as those in Western Europe, Russia, Anglo-America, Central Africa, and the urban centers of Latin America who would not be able to be targeted by these weapons without wiping out most of the non-Muslim population in these cities.

Finally, if you talk to anyone who survived the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki (or if you see the museums in those cities), they will make the horror and immorality of nuclear weapons painfully clear. Its effects are catastrophic even on the survivors. Nuclear weapons are a cruel method of killing large groups of people.

If the objective is long-term peace and stability, then, what we need to do is start talking and negotiating. Warfare, and certainly nuclear warfare, will not solve the cultural, political, economic, and social issues that plague our world.

If you happen to be looking at a nuclear bomb without protection at the moment of explosion you will receive permanent retinal burns from the UV radiation. The US military actually did effects experiments in the 1950s using sheep with their eyelids clamped open so they could verify this and found "upside down mushroom shaped burns" on the retinas of those sheep.

Even with protection from the UV you may experience temporary flash blindness due to the brightness of the visible light bleaching the pigments in the rod and cone cells in the retina.