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This chapter starts with grounding in the science of nuclear weapons, how they work, and the damage they are capable of causing. Readers are given an introduction to the basics of nuclear weapons and "what makes them go bang", including an explanation of nuclear fission and fusion, and the...
What Are Nuclear Weapons and Why Are They So Powerful? This chapter starts with grounding in the science of nuclear weapons, how they work, and the damage they are capable of causing. Readers are given an introduction to the basics of nuclear weapons and "what makes them go bang", includin...
The Big Business of Nuclear Weapons Manufacturing 13:02 Why Airplane Seats Are Getting Bigger And Fancier Again 13:21 Why Walmart And Alphabet Are Beating Amazon In Drone Delivery 21:14 Why Amazon Dominates Online Shopping 44:43 Could China Dethrone The U.S. Dollar With A Digital Yuan...
it's the backbone of our nuclear deterrence policy and it's worked for decades. moreover, even from the beginning nuclear weapons were designed to not be used, but rather to act as the ultimate ace up the sleeve that you never play. as the famous quote from the movie wargames goes, "...
The other worry is Mr. Macron’s: that NATO will provoke Russia. From the start of this war, when he spoke of “consequences...such as you have never seen in your entire history”, Mr. Putin has hinted that Western involvement could lead to the use ofnuclear weapons. Wisely, the West...
And although they wrought devastating amounts of damage, they were quite weak compared with later-made weapons, exploding with the force of around 20 kilotons of TNT or less, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. (On the other end of the spectrum, the Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba ...
The "game-changer" in developing the technology today is a new form of uranium, which is not considered a weapons-grade material. That opens the door for commercial space companies to work on spin-offs after the test mission, said Pam Melroy, NASA's deputy administrator. ...
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the U.S. agency responsible for addressing these risks directly, employs2,000 peopleto tackle chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons. Hundreds work on the nuclear mission alone. Another2,500 people, including200 Americans, work at the Int...
Future disarmament verifiers might have to find ways to detect aspects of nuclear weapons development not related to nuclear materials in order to guard against breakout from a disarmament regime. Such non-nuclear work is likely to be harder to detect than fissile material activity, however, for ...