In the 1980s, scientists assessed the possible effects of nuclear warfare (many nuclear bombs exploding in different parts of the world) and proposed the theory that a nuclear winter could occur. In the nuclear-winter scenario, the explosion of many bombs would raise great clouds of dust and ...
How Atomic Bombs Work Atomic bombs use fission to split the nucleus of an atom into two smaller fragments with a neutron, causing a deadly chain reaction. H-bombs go the other way and use fusion to bring together two smaller atoms to form a larger one. That creates massive energy in a ...
By 1945, the U.S., propelled by its industrial and scientific might, had successfully built, tested, and deployed atomic bombs. Yet by that same time, the Nazis were still years behind; they had no bomb, and still struggled to generate the atomic chain reaction needed for such a dreadful...
But in the same token, in another universe, the United States never dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Many-Worlds theory also certainly contradicts the idea of Occam's razor, that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. Even stranger is the implication by the ...
In 1883, an Indonesian volcano erupted with the force of several thousand atom bombs, killing an estimated 36,000 people and producing what some call the loudest sound ever heard on Earth [source: Bhatia]. Krakatau (aka Krakatoa) echoed like distant cannon fire over 3,000 miles (4,828 kilo...
Waste from nuclear plants remains dangerously radioactive for many years, so it's difficult to dispose of safely. Nuclear byproducts can be used to make bombs and there's a risk of nuclear material being acquired by terrorists. Nuclear plants aren't sustainable or renewable forms of energy, ...
Radiation is also made by artificial processes that happen inside nuclear power plants and nuclear bombs.What causes radiation? Atoms of a particular chemical element often exist in slightly different forms called isotopes. The metal tin, for example, has ten stable isotopes: atoms that have the ...
invasion if the Japanese did not surrender. On August 7, Japanese atomic scientists arrived and confirmed that the city had been destroyed by an atomic device. The Japanese cabinet met and determined that only one or two more bombs of this type could exist, and decided to continue the war ...
After what that arch Euro-sceptic the Duke of Wellington would have called some hard pounding, we finished with six hotly-debated titles. Grace Kempster justly labelled them as "dangerous reading", a 鈥Tonkin, Boyd
But many other people still defend the firebombing of Tokyo and the subsequent dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They point out that the Japanese invasions of China, and then of large parts of south-east Asia, had led to millions of deaths. Over 100,000 American troops had...