Nuclear Weapons

I'm not sure of this. Why would Iraq have a nuke? One purpose of Iraq having a nuke is that they can start or end war. I don't think Iraq haves the right to have a nuke.

The mammoth building, constructed in about 18 months during World War II, was the first building to enrich uranium. It operated until the mid-1960s then sat dormant for the next 40 years.

When the decision was made to turn ETTP into a modern industrial park it was determined that most of K-25 would be torn down. But since it was recognized as being a historically significant structure, a memorandum of agreement was signed to preserve the so-called North Tower, the section that connected the two 'legs' of the U-shaped building.

- Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board-

That would depend on where they are launched from, where their target is, and where you are. Without knowing all of that it is not possible to give you a useful answer.

If your location is distant from the target it is also necessary to know wind direction, wind speed, and precipitation patterns near you in the days after the detonation to determine your fallout exposure chances.

yes, the radiations will come out of the power plant and may cause damage to your body

it ended the war quickly, at low cost in terms of both money and lives lost on both sides.

The first country to use nuclear power for electricity generation was the United States. The world's first commercial nuclear power plant, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, began operation in 1958 in Pennsylvania. This marked a significant milestone in the development of nuclear energy as a source of power.

Yes. They built Nuclear Weapons and showed the full effect. Surprisingly the Soviet Union won building the "Ivan" in the Arctic circle. But there was a little fighting and an attempt to actually launch nuclear missiles! This was in Cuba. Thats where the 'Cuban Missible Crisis' came from.

Manhattan Engineering District

Nakita Krushev

The first French nuclear test was Gerboise Bleu on February 13, 1960 at 06:04 Greenwich Mean Time. The test was conducted near Reganne in the Algerian Sahara desert in Africa. It was a tower shot from a 105-meter tower. The test device was a single-point implosion-type plutonium device and had a yield of between 60 and 70 kilotons (as predicted). It was the largest first test by the nuclear powers of the time.

You can't.

Read the book "The Radioactive Boy Scout", it is about a boy that attempted to build a working small nuclear breeder reactor in his parent's garden shed as part of a Merit Badge project (without telling anyone what he was trying to do). The end result was he exposed himself to excessive radiation, prohibiting him for life from working in anyplace involving radioactivity and the entire backyard of his parent's house becoming radioactive hazardous waste and had to be ug up and disposed of.

His "nuclear reactor" did multiply neutrons, but never reached a stable chain reaction (if it had he would have probably died of the radiation exposure as it was not adequately shielded).

The fuel he used was a mixture of natural uranium ore and americium-241 from stolen smoke detectors. The moderator was paraffin wax. It included a thorium oxide breeding blanket, intended to breed uranium-233 as additional fuel. It had no cooling system and the paraffin wax moderator would have melted out shutting it down had it actually reached a stable chain reaction.

The first atomic bomb was made in 1945, the first hydrogen bomb was made in 1952.

There were several locations: New Mexico, Pacific, Nevada, Space, etc. The general idea was a remote location to reduce hazards to civilians. In several tests it didn't work out that way.

Yes, buildings have been destroyed with nuclear weapons (find some photos of Hiroshima or Nagasaki Japan). Conventional explosives were used in WW 2 to bomb cities. Commercial explosives are used today in demolition to bring buildings down.

The bulk of the USSR's weapons are now in the custody of Russia. The US is still around, and still has some of its weapons; others have been decommissioned and disposed of.

The nuclear non proliferation treaty was signed by 189 countries and only Pakistan, Israel and India did not sign it

Generally, the people have no control over nuclear bombs. That they exist is a fact of life. If your country has them it is part of your duty to ensure your leaders use them, or not, in a manner that is ethical and moral for your society.

No, the only nuclear weapons ever used in combat were the two used in 1945 on Japan to end WW2.

The nuclear arms race was the core of the cold war.

Pitchblende is uranium ore, so any nuclear weapon which used uranium in some form or other (tamper, core, used with plutonium, secondary casing) would need uranium, which is initially obtained from the mining and refining of pitchblende, for example, Little Boy.

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Yes, 2. Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.