Dave MosherKelly Dickerson
TYPES OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS Nuclear explosionshave been detonated in all environments: above ground, underground and underwater. Bombs have been detonated on top of towers, onboard barges, suspended from balloons, on the earth's surface, underwater to depths of 600m, underground to depths of...
The firstnuclearreactor was designed to use in bombs to generate 239Pu. After that, these reactors are used for different purposes likeelectricity generationand also used in propelling ships for generating radioisotopes and supply heat. There are different types of nuclear reactors available in differe...
Close-cycle gas core nuclear rocket ("nuclear light bulb") Liberty Ship. Artwork by William Black Space Elevator. Artwork by Monolithic Studios The space ferry concept is what evolved into the NASA space shuttle. Its function is to boost payload into orbit, though you can think of it as an...
It’s believed that Stuxnet infected over 20,000 computers and ruined one-fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges – setting its program back years. Keyloggers A keylogger is a type of spyware that monitors user activity. Keyloggers can be used for legitimate purposes – for example, families who...
Nuclear Radiological Explosives Blast injury CBRNE Terrorism Active shooter Medical countermeasures 5.1Unique Vulnerabilities of Children Although pediatric patients are viewed as a unique population, they are the population: it has been estimated that more than 25% of the U.S. population fits within th...
Ash from an eruption column can drift or be blown hundreds or thousands of miles away from the volcano. The eruption columns are usually shaped like a mushroom (similar to a nuclear explosion) or an Italian pine tree; Pliny the Younger, a Roman historian, made the comparison while viewing ...
Although the term "radiation" may conjure images of atomic bombs, HAZMAT suits, and hazardous nuclear waste, the word has a much more innocuous meaning. The etymology of radiation originates from the Latin radiare, which simply means "to emit rays." In the case of nuclear waste, radiation ...
During the period of storage, most of the radioactivity would be Radiologists measure soil radioactivity levels near Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Plant, where a nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, releasing 100 times the radiation released by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during ...
such as eighty 500 lb-class JDAM Global Positioning System-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400 lb B83 nuclear bombs. The B-2 is the only known aircraft that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration. Development originally started under the "Advanced Technology Bom...