Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear power plants are designed with safety features to prevent accidents and limit the release of radiation. While accidents can still occur, the risk of a catastrophic event is much lower than with nuclear weapons, which are intentionally designed to cause destruction on a large scale.

India has the technological capability to produce a 1 megaton fusion bomb by further developing its nuclear weapon program. This would involve advanced research in fusion technology, production of tritium and deuterium isotopes, and the design of a sophisticated delivery system. However, it's important to note that this would have significant geopolitical implications and could violate international non-proliferation agreements.

There is no record of a nuclear explosion occurring on November 6, 2010. If there had been a nuclear explosion, it would likely have been a significant event that would be widely documented.

The main purpose of the hydrogen bomb was to create a much more powerful and destructive nuclear weapon than the atomic bomb. It was designed to release energy from nuclear fusion reactions, which is many times greater than that of nuclear fission reactions used in atomic bombs.

No, "atom bomb" and "atomic bomb" refer to the same type of explosive device that derives its destructive power from nuclear fission reactions. Both terms are used interchangeably to describe the same technology.

I do not understand your question.

Do you mean the speed of its shockwave? That is supersonic.

Do you mean the speed of its x-rays and gamma rays? That is the speed of light.

Do you mean the speed of its fallout? That depends on wind speeds.

Do you mean the speed of its delivery vehicle? Is that a bomber? Subsonic. Is that an ICBM? Roughly orbital velocity. Is that a cruise missile? Subsonic. Is that an artillery shell? Supersonic. Is that an antisubmarine depth bomb? Slow.

Or do you mean some other speed?

A more precisely worded question will help get a more precise answer.

Nuclear weapons, or nukes, are made of radioactive materials such as plutonium or uranium, which undergo a controlled nuclear chain reaction to release a massive amount of energy in the form of a nuclear explosion. The process involves splitting atomic nuclei in a process called fission or combining them in fusion reactions. These materials are highly regulated and controlled due to their destructive potential.

Both words are technically interchangeable, so your question cannot be answered as written.

Perhaps you meant which is bigger fission or fusion bomb?

Define bigger: size or yield?

The biggest bombs ever built in both size and yield have been fusion. But many modern fission bombs are bigger physically than fusion bombs with bigger yield and some fission bombs have bigger yield than some fusion bombs. Confused?

It all depends on purpose.

I'm not quite sure what you mean as "progress". It appears to be a technology that somebody would have developed sometime in the timeframe of the 1940s, 1950s, or 1960s, even if WW2 had not accelerated the "need" for it. The idea of the neutron chain reaction required for it had already been patented in 1934 by Leo Szilard and the Uranium fission reaction needed to make it work had already been discovered in 1939 by Otto Hahn. The main thing that limits it is the specialized industrial infrastructure that needs to be developed to prepare the components. However it has more or less been shown that for a country sized entity, this takes roughly 4 years from decision to proceed to ability to make bombs.

You mean what triggers the fission chain reaction?

The atomic bomb that was dropped on hiroshima was a gun style fission bomb that used a uranium-235 core. The core consisted of two hemispheres of U-235 on each side of a tube, with an explosive that would push them together. When they collide, they reach the critical mass for an uncontrolled chain reaction and nuclei start to split and release neutrons which will collide with other nuclei and split them as well. The explosive used to trigger the reaction is triggered by a detonator.

Buildings are effected by the blast not by purpose but by construction (as with any bomb). Light wooden construction is flattened, reinforced concrete may survive with minor damage.

Yes, uranium is used in nuclear weapons, specifically in nuclear fission bombs. The two main isotopes of uranium used for this purpose are uranium-235 and uranium-238. When these isotopes undergo a fission chain reaction, a large amount of energy is released, leading to the explosive power of the nuclear weapon.

An atomic bomb is a fission bomb, which uses a type of heavy radioactive metal (usually uranium 235 or plutonium 239). Neutrons split this metal up, resulting in a release of a lot of energy (this is what happens in nuclear power stations).

A hydrogen bomb is a fusion bomb, which comes in two parts: a fission device (A-bomb) and a fuel cell composed of hydrogen. The fission device is detonated and the radiation fuses the hydrogen together to form helium, thus also releasing a lot of energy (this is what happens in stars).

Yes, a hydrogen bomb is a type of nuclear weapon that can have devastating effects, causing widespread destruction and loss of life due to the large amount of explosive power it generates. The detonation of a hydrogen bomb can result in massive explosions, radiation exposure, and long-term environmental damage.

The main difference between atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs is the source of their energy. Atomic bombs rely on nuclear fission (splitting atoms), while hydrogen bombs use a two-stage process involving both fission and fusion (combining atoms). Hydrogen bombs are more powerful and destructive than atomic bombs.

Nuclear bombs can use either nuclear fission or nuclear fusion as the primary mechanism of energy release. Most nuclear bombs in current arsenals rely on nuclear fission reactions, while thermonuclear bombs use a fission reaction to trigger a fusion reaction.

A neutron bomb is a type of hydrogen bomb. It actually was a development that came from the late 1950s work by the US to make "clean hydrogen bombs" that produced very little fallout.

In a conventional hydrogen bomb the tamper (device to contain the nuclear reaction as long as possible to get as much energy from it as possible) is usually made with depleted uranium because of its high density and low cost. While depleted uranium will not support a neutron chain reaction it will fission when hit by the high energy neutrons produced by the fusion reaction of the hydrogen bomb. This depleted uranium fast fission can produce up to 90% of the total yield in some hydrogen bomb designs, as well as a proportional amount of the fallout.

In a "clean hydrogen bomb" the tamper is instead made of some other very dense metal that unlike uranium will not fission when hit by high energy neutrons. Lead and tungsten have been used. However the explosive yield of a "clean hydrogen bomb" will be lower than a similar conventional hydrogen bomb because there is no fission in the tamper.

But as these materials do not consume the high energy neutrons, they escape from "clean hydrogen bombs". It was observed that these neutrons easily pass through tank armor and building walls, killing those inside while the lower yield produces less blast and fire damage. Thus was born the idea of the neutron bomb.

A nuclear bomb creates a big explosion through a process called nuclear fission, where the nuclei of atoms are split apart, releasing a huge amount of energy in the form of heat, light, and shock waves. This release of energy happens very quickly, causing a powerful and destructive explosion.

In the bomb, no.

However the US first "calutron" mass spectrometer uranium enrichment machines in WW2 were built with silver (borrowed from the treasury) magnet windings, because copper was not available in the war because it was being used in making bullets and ammo casings. This silver was returned after the war.

nukes are not "bad for countries" but they have devistating side affects, for example: the cities of nagisaki and hiroshima are still highly radiated due to the original atomic bombs which were droped there.

a hydrogen bomb is a fusion bomb. even though in standard types of hydrogen bombs 90% of the yield is fission, caused by uranium-238 fission by 15 MeV neutrons from the fusion reaction.

Nuclear reactions can be both good and bad. They can produce clean energy, like in nuclear power plants, but also be used to create nuclear weapons which have destructive capabilities. The key is in how nuclear reactions are managed and controlled.