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A nuclear weapon is a device designed to release energy in an explosive manner as a result of nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, or a combination of the two. Fission weapons are commonly referred to as atomic bombs, and fusion weapons are referred to as th
Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, there have been a handful of major significant nuclear radiation incidents. These include the detonation of atomic bombs in Japan in the 1940s, Chernobyl and Three-Mile Island in Pennsylvania. When nuclear bombs were used in Japan in World War II, people an...
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...
s nuclear program. Spread via a USB thumb drive, it targeted Siemens industrial control systems, causing centrifuges to fail and self-destroy at a record rate. It’s believed that Stuxnet infected over 20,000 computers and ruined one-fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges – setting its program...
of a singlenuclear weapon. (By the end of the year,radiation injurybrought the death toll to 140,000.) During theCold WartheUnited States, theSoviet Union, and other major powers built up enormous stockpiles containing tens of thousands of nuclear bombs,missilewarheads, andartilleryshells—so ...
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 ...
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 ...
and the process to generate them is usually the most expensive part in the creation of a nuclear bomb. Uranium-233 was used in a couple of test bombs in USA and it is supposed to be the main component in India’s bombs. Thorium-232 is also fissile but it needs fast moving neutrons ...
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...