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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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What was the cartoon character created to help students about dangers of nuclear weapons was?
"Bert the Turtle"
The water is kept under pressure, which raises the boiling point of the water (the same concept behind pressure cookers). Therefore, the water will still be liquid at temperatures greater than 100 degrees C.
What nasty weapon was used widely during the Vietnam war as a fireball dropped from planes?
Just like with the "young generation" of today, the "young generation" of yesterday "got off" on all that "flame". Hollywood loves that stuff! It sells!
In Hollywood movies one hand grenade goes up like an atom bomb, destroys more stuff than a B52 bomber! In truth "Naplam" was simply jellied gasoline. It burned initially, then burned itself out. Caused NOWHERE near the destruction of a general purpose H-E bomb (250lb, 500lb, 750lb, and 1,000lb). But the press certainly loved it! Just like today.
Would the US have used nuclear bomb on Japan if the population of Japan were Europeans?
We can never know for certain as that is not the case.
However had the Nazies been able to continue fighting or had the bombs been ready before the Nazi surrender, I believe there is a good chance the first atomic bomb would have been dropped in Germany instead of Japan. But this is also not the case as they surrendered before the atomic bomb was available.
Counterfactual History can be fun to think about, but rapidly disintegrates into uncontrolled and irrational speculation.
Who was the First commander of the USS Nautilus?
Vice Admiral (then Commander) Eugene P. "Dennis" Wilkinson, was the first CO of the USS Nautilus (SSN-571).
He was selected for the Nautilus command as well as 2 other historic assignments:
First Commanding Officer of USS Long Beach (CGN-9), the Navy's first nuclear powered surface ship
First CEO of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations
How many bombs is 500 pounds of bombs?
The GBU-12 and the GBU-38 weigh 606 pounds and 552 pounds, respectively. They are considered "500-pound" munitions because they're based on a standard 500-pound bomb known as the Mk 82.
How do you play Nuke the Whales on Roblox com?
In "Nuke the Whales" the point of the game is to collect yellow blubber by blowing up whales. When you blow open a whale, there will be yellow blubber inside, touch it to collect it. The more blubber you collect he more powerful you harpoon rocket launcher gets. Collect the most blubber in the time limit to win!
Can you destroy a tactical nuke in mw2?
well comrade there is no DESTROYING IT even if you did wouldn't it still hit you? i mean its a NUKE not a predator missle[you can destroy a predator missle by shooting at it] but you can avoid a nuke! use a predator missle seconds before it comes and you will avoid it im not saying you wont die i just heard this
Why was plutonium used in Fat Man?
There are two materials that can be used to make an atomic bomb: Plutonium-239 and uranium-235. Of the two plutonium-239 is easier to acquire. By the end of the Manhattan Project the U.S. only had enough uranium-235 to make one bomb, and that was Little Boy.
What was the first nuclear weapon that are on earth?
First 9 nuclear explosives (2 used as weapons), built up to end of Operation Crossroads:
- Trinity test device, plutonium implosion, July 16, 1945 - 100 foot tower
- Little Boy bomb, uranium gun, August 6, 1945 Hiroshima - airburst
- Fat Man bomb, plutonium implosion, August 9, 1945 Nagasaki - airburst
- Crossroads Able bomb, unknown, 1946 Bikini atoll lagoon - airburst
- Crossroads Baker bomb, unknown, 1946 Bikini atoll lagoon - underwater burst
- Stockpile bomb, unknown
- Stockpile bomb, unknown
- Stockpile bomb, unknown
- Stockpile bomb, unknown
A "dirty bomb" is a conventional explosive, such as dynamite, salted with radioactive waste that scatters when the bomb goes off. It is not a nuclear bomb. The bomb can kill or injure through the initial blast of the conventional explosive and through the dispersal of the radioactive materials-- hence the term "dirty." Such bombs could be small devices or as big as a truck bomb. There are four categories of radioactive waste ranging from very low-level waste that can be safely disposed of with ordinary refuse, to high-level waste such as spent nuclear fuel. Substantial amounts of radioactive waste are generated through civilian and military applications of radionuclides in medical facilities, food irradiation plants, chemical and manufacturing plants, etc. Some types of radioactive waste would be easier to obtain than others in order to make a "dirty bomb". Radiation detectors are needed to alert officials of their presence. One particular personal radiation detector has the technology to detect Gamma, X-ray and Beta radiation. This includes the ability to detect radioactive iodine, of which Potassium Iodide protects against and would most likely not be present in a dirty bomb due to the fact that it is a byproduct of nuclear fission which takes place only within nuclear reactors and during the detonation of a nuclear bomb. Obviously this type of 'radioactive waste' would be very difficult to obtain and incorporate in the makings of a dirty bomb. If a dirty bomb detonates in your area, follow the instructions of local health officials concerning evacuation, decontamination and the administering of potassium iodide (though unlikely). Nukepills.com offers the Dirty Bomb Emergency Kit™ for detection and decontamination of radiation likely found in a dirty bomb.
Is a neutron bomb more deadlier than a nuclear bomb?
A neutron bomb is a nuclear bomb.
Specifically a neutron bomb is a modified fusion (hydrogen) bomb.
In a standard fusion bomb the fusion tamper is Uranium-238. This absorbs the high energy fusion neutrons and fissions, producing roughly 90% of the yield of the fusion bomb and most of the fallout.
If instead we change the fusion tamper to a different dense metal with a much much smaller cross-section for absorbing neutrons, then most of them escape. This is a "neutron" bomb. If everything else is the same, it has only about 10% of the yield and a tiny fraction of the fallout of the standard fusion bomb (making it a "clean" bomb).
Sometimes the neutron bomb is considered an anti-tank weapon, as the neutrons can pass through the tank and irradiate the crew while the lower yield and fallout produce less blast damage and radiological contamination.
However the high neutron flux induces secondary radioactivity in most exposed materials. This is also a form of radiological contamination, but cannot be washed off like fallout.
Advantages of missile over normal weapons?
An ICBM is long range and its warheads are falling more or less ballistically, even if you "shot them down" they would continue on almost the same trajectory still hitting their target. You can't just shoot them down you must have the accuracy to totally destroy them (and they are under 1 foot in diameter and traveling at tens of thousands of miles per hour).
When was the Russian nuclear explosion?
On April 26, 1986, Reactor #4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the town of Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded.
From August 29 1949 until January 15 1965 there were 715 nuclear weapon tests by the Soviets (involving 969 devices) by official count, most at Semipalatinsk Test Site and Novaya Zemlya, and a few more at various sites in Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.
The largest nuclear device detonated by the Russians was the Tzar bomb detonated October 30, 1961 and had an energy yield of 56 megatons (56 million) of TNT.
The first MMORPG that hit globally was a two-person created game written by Dr. John Taylor and Dr. Kelton Flinn out of the University of Virginia. The game was known as "Island of Kesmai" and was a derivative from Rogue (a single-player game) back in the 1980's.
When did the Soviets learn how to make weapons of mass destruction?
The Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, was also distrustful of the Americans after Truman only told him of a new terrifying weapon that he was going to use against the Japanese. The first Stalin knew of what this weapon could do was when reports on Hiroshima got back to Moscow. So this was the scene after the war ended in 1945. Both sides distrusted the other. One had a vast army in the field (the Soviet Union with its Red Army supremely lead by Zhukov) while the other, the Americans had the most powerful weapon in the world, the A-bomb and the Soviets had no way on knowing how many America had.
The Soviet weapons program proper began in 1943 during World War II, under the leadership of physicist Igor Vasilievich Kurchatov. The program was initiated by reports collected by Soviet intelligence about the rapidly growing Manhattan Project in the U.S. It remained largely an intelligence operation until the end of the war, but it was a highly successful one, due to sympathies of many for the wartime Soviet Union fighting Nazi Germany; the socialist political sympathies of some; and the weak security screening program necessitated by the hasty assembly of the vast program. Klaus Fuchs, an important physicist at Los Alamos, was by far the most valuable contributor of atomic information.
The first Soviet nuclear test, code named "First Lightning", detonated a plutonium bomb, the RDS-1. The code designation RDS was actually arbitrary and meaningless, but various people on the project gave it a variety of interpretations, one popular one was "Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Stalina" (Stalin's Rocket Engine), another was "Russia Does It Alone". The whole focus of the Soviet program at this point was to set off a Soviet atomic blast at the earliest possible time whatever the cost.
The first The U.S. had already demonstrated the ability to build a 10 megaton bomb in November 1952 with the Ivy Mike test, but the Soviets had no idea how to duplicate the feat. This device, designated RDS-37, was the Soviet Union's first test of a two-stage radiation implosion. The Soviet Union became the second nation in the world to detonate a nuclear device on 29 August 1949.
