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8.2HEALTH EFFECTS OF THE ATOMIC BOMB Nuclear devices are basically of two types, fission (the “atomic” bomb) and fusion (the thermonuclear or “hydrogen” bomb). Fission of plutonium-239 or uranium-235 produces over 100 radioisotopes with half-lives varying from fractions of a second to mill...
Thermonuclear bombs start with the same fission reaction that powers atomic bombs — but the majority of the uranium or plutonium in atomic bombs actually goes unused. In a thermonuclear bomb, an additional step means that more of the bomb's explosive power becomes available. First, an igniting...
But wait, what about the bomb you need to pump the laser? Well, Orion is an nuclear-bomb-powered drive, remember? Make the propulsive bombs do double duty. The weapons are called "spurt bombs." Dispensers on the pusher plate eject a flight of the little darlings. The spurt bombs unfurl...
The weapons they employed were the irresistible Psychedelic Ray, the Itching Beam (which turned staid burghers into instant nudists), the dread Diarrhoea Bomb, and the debilitating Tumescent Aerosol Spray. The total human casualties were thirty-six, mostly through exhaustion or heart failure. Artwork...
and former Soviet nuclear weapons. A third part is now the site of the East Tennessee Technology Park. Now That's Interesting The Japanese had their own effort to develop an atomic bomb, based at RIKEN, a scientific institute near Tokyo, according to the Atomic Heritage Foundation. But ...
At upper right, you can see the cluster of the first H-bomb designs (TX-16, EC-17, Mk-17, EC-24, Mk-24) — high yield (hence far to the right), but very heavy (hence very high). Again, a good benchmark for first generation high-yield thermonuclear weapons. What a chart like...
but nuclear scientists did not rest there. The second way to use nuclear physics to release vast quantities of energy is by nuclear fusion. By 1951 the first fusion weapon had been designed, the Teller-Ulam thermonuclear weapon (aka "H-bomb"). Fission was now old-hat, fusion was tapping ...
analogous to radiation-induced compression in a thermonuclear device (particularly if the "bomb" includes atamper). Since only a miniscule fraction of the annihilation pions and gammas will be reabsorbed by the reactants themselves, I expect the effective "pressure" they exert to disrupt the mix...