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Nuclear Weapons
This category is for questions about weapons that use nuclear fission or fusion to gain explosive power.
3,869 Questions
How much does a hydrogen bomb cost?
Enough in which the president would be the one to ask you at an immensely dire time. In English terms, only if we cannot end a war unless we use a thermonuke.
Which famous Swis citizen said nuclear bombs If you had known you would have become a watchmaker?
albert einstein
How did nuclear weapons factor into communism and the fear of communism?
Most democratic countries feared that if communist nations had nuclear power, they would have the power to overthrow any democratic government and create a new one world communist government.
What couple was convicted of selling nuclear weapon secrets to the USSR?
Julius and Ethel Rosenburg. They were probably far less guilty than others in that actually worked on the Manhattan Project, they were just couriers.
What is the meaning of nuclear weapon?
The meaning of the word nuclear weapon, is a weapon that has a nuclear warhead on it.
What prevented the US and the Soviet Union from using nuclear weapons?
a fear that they both would be destroyed in nuclear war. That is called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
What is the use of plutonium in a nuclear bomb?
Plutonium is used as the fissile material in the core of a nuclear bomb. When a critical mass of plutonium is rapidly brought together, a chain reaction occurs, releasing a large amount of energy in the form of a nuclear explosion.
What weapon did the US build in 1952?
During the Cold War (when US want the world to be capitalist while Russia wanted it to be communist) in 1950, US President Harry S. Truman authorized the invention of a bomb stronger than the atomic bomb (A-bomb), which both US and Russia already had in their arsenals, just in case if there would be a World War III when World War II just ended.
The US tested its first H-bomb (hydrogen bomb) in 1952, which was thousands of times stronger than the A-bomb, then the Soviet Union (Russia) tested their own H-bomb in 1953.
Sometimes they are transported by large air crafts. Sometimes, THIS IS A SECRET, Shhhhhhh! don't tell anyone! sometimes, they explode while being transported. a famous pilot called Harriet Quimby died that way in 1987, oops sorry, it was actually 1927. I lied, she ACTUALLY died in a plane crash. it was a sad story.
yeah, that's right retards. it's true you c-c-c-c-c-crapheads!!!!!
now let me sing you a poem. yeah that's right. i can sing!
nukes are bright
in the starlight
when they blow up
you scatter everywhere
nukes are awesome!
that's right, you heard opossum.
The Cuban Missile Crisis began in 1962 when which country placed nuclear missiles in Cuba?
The Soviet Union
Is North Korea going to nuke us?
By us do you mean United States? If so probably not, since they cant reach us. If any one they would nuke Japan or South Korea, they would be dumb to nuke China or Russia.
pssh. nig we screwed.
In what state was the nuclear bomb made?
I think it was Arizona Actually the nuclear bomb called the Manhattan Project was made and tested in New Mexico.
What are the effects of nuclear Holocaust?
the effects are centuries of radiation that is close to impossible to live in there is never a safe tome to come out of your house and that alone is still not enough to keep you alive as the only thing radiation proof is led and there is not enough led in the world to line all the houses in the world with it or even a small place that it effects .
When were the first nuclear weapons introduced to the Japanese?
A strange way to describe it - 'introduced'. 'I would like you to meet a nuclear weapon......' The bombs were dropped on civilian cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, without any warning, in August 1945.
Can crops be grown on land that has been struck by a nuclear bomb?
Absolutely. However they should be tested for radiological contamination before being eaten.
In both Hiroshima and Nagasaki bamboo naturally sprouted from their rhizome in less than a week after the attacks.
