ASSISTANT: We have six thousand tanks, thirteen thousand aircraft, forty thousand armored vehicles and almost four thousand nukes, Mr President. PANEL 3 In the foreground, we can see the President pointing in a dramatic “go make it happen!” gesture. The drama is heightened by the extreme fo...
Today, the method used in World War II against Japan — gravity bombs carried by aircraft — remains a viable way to deliver nuclear weapons. But over the years, as warheads have decreased in size, other options have become available. Many countries have stockpiled several ballistic and cruise...
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The United States has over 2,800 nuclear weapons as of March 1, 2019, a number fixed at rough parity with the Russian Federation by international treaty. France and the United Kingdom have a few hundred. No one knows how many India, China, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel have. ...
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By modifying the rotation patterns, Stuxnet was able to destroy a significant amount of centrifuges, and delay Iran’s nuclear program by several years.Wi-Fi SniffingSnooping in on someone’s traffic is a technique malicious hackers use frequently in order to acquire data on their target. A ...
Pretty much any asteroid that poses a threat to Earth can be blasted out of the heavens using a nuclear bomb, even with warning times of a week or less, say a team of scientists who have been developing the idea. "We have the solution, using our baseline concept, to be able to mitig...
Nuclear bombs work by initiating a nuclear chain reaction releasing the huge amounts of energy that is tied up in holding the nucleus or centre of atoms together. Relative to conventional explosives nuclear bombs can be of the order of millions to billions of times more powerful than TNT. ...
Uranium is not the only material used for making atomic bombs. Another material is the Pu-239 isotope of the man-made element plutonium. Plutonium is only found naturally in minute traces, so useable amounts must be produced from uranium. In a nuclear reactor, uranium's heavier U-238 isotop...