Now, as the administration wraps up its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and presents its fiscal year 2011 budget request to Congress, some important details are emerging about what President Obama's pledge really means and how the administration defines a "new" nuclear weapon.TOM Z. COLLINA...
While the threat of global destruction was diminished greatly with the fall of the Soviet Union, terrorism is a major problem. If some zealot gets his mitts on a nuclear device, what is to keep him from using it? The old theory of mutually assured destruction that kept nuclear powers in ...
What If A Nuclear Weapon Hits New York Tomorrow? A nuclear weapon detonation in New York City would result in catastrophic destruction. If a bomb like "Little Boy," the same type dropped on Hiroshima, were to hit Manhattan, everything within a 200-m...
A nuclear bomb is a name generally given to a weapon that’s explosion is the result of energy released by a reaction involving atomic nuclei. This is typically done through fission, usually powered by uranium or plutonium, or fusion, which is more powerful and usually involves hydrogen. Fissi...
I’m interested on [in] what a nuclear blast would do to the human body. And hopefully, we can learn why we should try and avoid such things in the future. For starters, just what is a nuclear bomb? A nuclear bomb i...
What If A Nuclear Weapon Hits New York Tomorrow? A nuclear weapon detonation in New York City would result in catastrophic destruction. If a bomb like "Little Boy," the same type dropped on Hiroshima, were to hit Manhattan, everything within a 200-m 展开更多...
How would the U.S. respond to a tactical nuclear weapon strike? President Biden said at a private fundraiser this month that the world might face "the prospect of Armageddon" if Putin decided to use nuclear weapons and that the administration is trying to figure out what Putin's "off-ramps...
Among the issues being addressed at the China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center in California are the redefinition of weapon, the meaning of offensive and the use of traditional platforms to carry weapons. A number of ways to manipulate municipal electricity of computers that control integrated air ...
n.nuclear weapon; N-weapon; nuke hé wǔ qì chǔ bèi liàng dà 核武器储备量大 large stockpiling of nuclear weapons xiāo huǐ hé wǔ qì yǒu lì yú shì jiè hé píng 销毁核武器有利于世界和平。 The destruction of nuclear weapons is conducive to world peace. ...
"It can be used to fire a nuclear weapon with a yield of between five and 50 kilotonnes. "So with that range and with that sort of yield it would be absolutely devastating." Is Russia's stockpile likely to change? The Russians have been continuing a "comprehensiv...