Nuclear Weapons

A large nuclear war could kill the entire population of the world (which is currently about seven billion people) but there could also be a smaller nuclear war, which might kill only a few million people.

Chernobyl. And while it IS regarded as the worst nuclear disaster, in terms of long-term consequences, we are actually begining to discover that many of the supposedly radiation-caused illnesses are actually the result of an extremely high level of impurities, especially Lead in the water supply, and not actually the result of radiation poisoning as originally suspected. But, the jury is not in just yet.

No, for two main reasons: a bomb requires highly enriched U-235 (near 100 percent) or near pure Pu-239, and reactor fuel is a much weaker material, only 4 to 5 percent, the rest non-fissile U-238; and secondly a bomb requires the fissile material to be concentrated into as small a space as possible, whereas in a reactor it is spaced out in a lattice with moderator in the spaces.

None. The first atomic bomb was made with enriched uranium. Note: There is a "slight technicality" with this one. Here's the deal. Any time that a small quantity (or a slightly larger quantity) of uranium is found, either in nature or in the physics lab, there will be a tiny bit of plutonium in the sample. Only the tiniest bit, but it will be there. Uranium's isotopes are all unstable, and they will decay by spontaneous fission or alpha emission. Within that decay environment, a few atoms of uranium are transformed into atoms of plutonium. As stated, it's a "technicality" as such, but it's a fact.

detente

• V-1 (cruise missile): Fritz Gosslau & Robert Lusser
• V-2 (ballistic missile): Wernher von Braun & Walter Riedel

Pro: It will likely solve the current population crisis.

Con: It will hurt a lot of people.

My, those sound very similar, don't they?

When it detonates it produces new radiation belts captured in earth's magnetic field and produces Auroral displays near the poles. The radiation belts take a few weeks to dissipate and have severely damaged early satellites passing through them. One Gemini mission was delayed after a US nuclear test in space to avoid exposing the astronauts.

i don't think so. here are some countries that do US,russia,UK,France,china and maybe Iran and north Korea

In 1939, J. Robert Oppenheimer was the first to realize that an atomic bomb could be made as a result of nuclear fission. Prior to this, there were several scientists around the world who knew they were on the verge of discovery. It wasn't until 1945 that the first experiment was conducted.

James Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932.

Leo Szilard got the idea of the neutron chain reaction as a means of releasing the energy of the atom in 1933 and filed a patent on this process in 1934 (the patent was granted in 1936 and promptly classified by the British Admiralty to prevent Germany from seeing it).

However the breakthrough that made atomic bombs possible was the discovery of nuclear fission of uranium in 1939 by a joint German and Swedish team.

definitely not. his power armour may reduce the radiation, and a warrior in terminator armour may fare better, but anyone close to the blast would be gone. also it depends on the size of the bomb and where it is detonated.

Several different materials. One of them is Uranium 238. While it will not normally undergo a nuclear chain reaction, being in the heart of a detonating nuclear weapon is not normal.

This is not a fixed value, as it depends on the medium and magnetic field strength in which the explosion happens as well as the yield.

In the lower atmosphere (where the air is nonconductive, except right around the device where it ionized the air itself) this radius may be well under the blast effect radius.

In the ionosphere (where the air is already ionized) this radius could be in the hundreds or thousands of miles.

Above the atmosphere (in the vacuum of space) this radius is zero (regardless of yield).

One should not use a definite article when describing a nuclear war. There could be many nuclear wars or none at all. You do not have to do anything because you can simply allow the nuclear bombs to fall and kill a large amount of people. However, to help prevent large amounts of casualties, a country may wish to have a large amount of patriot missiles to shoot down ICBMs and many bomb shelters for people to hide in.

After the civil war ended most of them used army surplus repeating rifles that the US Army Ordnance department had declared obsolete in favor of the new single shotSpringfield Trapdoor rifle and sold for scrap value. Ordnance decided repeating rifles high fire rate wasted ammo.

no

Assuming John McCain or Barry Goldwater.

Magnesium, white phosphorus, and jellied gasoline (napalm) are the typical fuels in conventional incendiary bombs. They are not used in conventional high explosive bombs or in nuclear bombs.

two in which we bombed Nagasaki & Hiroshima. we threatened japan that if they did not surrender we would bomb every city in japan. in which, to make any more bombs it would have taken about a month. trust me, im studying it right now.(:

low oil pressure could be one cause cold oil is heavier in viscoity and as it warms it gets thinner, the lifters are not getting the oil inside of them causing them to colaspe

try having a new oil pump installed

No country used nuclear weapons. Countries such as the U.S., U.S.S.R., U.K, China, France, & India did test weapons, but none were ever used in a conflict. no one fought at all during the cold war it was just threating the whole time

B53 nuclear bomb is nine megatons

No public data is out on how large the largest megaton nuke really is but there are claims and reports that it is over 100 megatons.

Basically the desert is a wasteland and there arn't any people, animals or plants living there apart from a few things like cacti and lizards, so this would make a suitable place to test nuclear weapons.

Also things like atomic bombs can disrupt the earth's magnetic field causing an E.M.P (Electro Magnetic Pulse) effect to cities or towns in the nearby radias, depending on the size of the explosion.

Greater damage from blast and thermal radiation.