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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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Is nuclear fission only used to create atomic bombs?
No, nuclear fission operates all nuclear reactors. If they are power plant reactors it is used to generate electricity.
What are the steps of making nuclear bombs?
- Locate Uranium ore deposits
- Mine Uranium
- Build Uranium enrichment plant
- Enrich Uranium to about 90% pure Uranium-235
- Design bomb
- Build bomb
The first 4 steps will take an industrialized country about 4 years to complete. Step 5 can be done in parallel with those steps. Step 6 is more or less trivial after the others are complete.
A Plutonium based bomb requires a few additional steps but takes roughly as much effort and time.
What are some different types of atomic bombs?
Models or kinds? I will assume kinds:
- gun assembly uranium bomb
- implosion assembly plutonium bomb
- implosion assembly composite plutonium/uranium bomb
- levitated core bomb
- gas fusion boosted fission bomb
- Teller-Ulam radiation implosion fusion bomb (possibly multistage)
Why did they build the nuclear bombs in the first place?
Defense against the possibility that Nazi Germany might make one first.
Who created of nuclear weapons?
Several hundred scientists and engineers and several thousand technicians working on the Manhattan Project at a couple dozen different sites distributed across the US.
Is there any atomic bomb in a ciggeraite?
It is impossible to build one in a volume that small. The smallest built are roughly 4 to 6 inches in diameter and weigh maybe 40 pounds or so.
When bombs are made by amateurs, rather than by munitions factories, they are likely to be crude.
Who was the inventor of nuclear weapons?
Leo Szilard in 1933. He patented it in England in 1934. But it took over a decade to discover a material to use in it and finally build them in 1945.
personally i dont know but i guess.......a few billion. knowing how you need to build it and the materials for it and well, when you test it it is like waisted money. but a waisted few billion dollars. STOP TESTING ATOMIC BOMBS GOVERNMENT.
When did the us develope mass destruction weapons?
The US first stockpiled chemical weapons during the 1930s.
Was the atomic bomb a innovation?
Yes, but one whose time had come. If the US had not built it some other country would have within a decade or so.
What will happen if the people during the cold war were exposed to nuclear radiation?
Many were exposed (I was while a child). The exact effects depend on dose rate and period of exposure. Low exposures produce negligible effects. Medium exposures can produce radiation sickness, but the subject recovers without treatment. Exposures near the LD50 level will produce about 50% death, unless intensive medical treatments are given. Very high exposure produce 100% deaths within minutes.
If dose rates are very low, surprisingly high total doses can be received over long periods with no obvious effects.
It is believed that even at very low dose rates (even below natural background, which has always been there), a rise in cancer frequency will be observed. However proving this is difficult.
What is the design lifetime of a US nuclear weapon?
20 to 40 years, depending on the exact design. Most were never kept in stockpile that long. However as we can't test new designs several stockpile weapons are now beyond their design lifetime.
The early ones had some components with a shelf life under 6 months, but frequent replacement of those components could keep them usable for many years.
Well a nuke is a weapon of mass destruction using the seperation of nuetrons to create a near infinite explosion. It was first invented during World War II but banned in the middle of the arms race between the U.S and the Soveit Union. Nukes were oringally designed to end World War II but if used in space it can cause a global poweroutage (nothing using articial electricity would work). Though Nukes are technically banned they were originally designed to wipe out armies. Hope this helps.
What four new weapons were used during World War 2?
It depends somewhat on your definition of "new", but basic infantry weaponry in World War II for the United States Army used only two weapons from Wordl War I in the regular footsoldiers equipment: The M1911A1 Colt automatic pistol, and the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). The 1903, and 03A3 Springfields of World War I were also used, but as sniper weapons, not as main infantry shoulder rifles. The basic shoulder rifle was the M1 Garand (1936), the secondary support shoulder weapon was the M1 Carbine, the submachine guns were the Thompson submachinegun, which missed, literally by days, being used in World War 1, and the M3 "grease gun" submachine gun. The bazooka was also a new weapon in WW II.
Who is the inventor of nuclear reactor and nuclear bomb?
The inventor of the nuclear reactor was Atticus Finch. He was a scholar at MIT and got a master in space technition. In 1942 he invented the nuclear reactor to help the Germans in WWII. The Americans later stole it.
The inventor of both the nuclear reactor & nuclear bomb was Leo Szilard in London in 1933, he patented them in 1934. But as no fissionable or fissile material was known at the time neither could be built. It took Otto Frisch's 1938 discovery that the rare isotope Uranium-235 fissioned to make the practical and the US investment in industrial infrastructure between 1942 and 1945 to purify enough of it to make them actually buildable.
Yes. Nuclear weapons are very scary and they can seriously destroy the whole World. This means that they can destroy the whole planet.
