Search results for "Nuclear weapon" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Little Boy device became the first nuclear weapon used in war when it was ... [http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/design.htm Nuclear Weapon Design ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- in China and development of the Soviet nuclear weapons made him re-consider ... the technology necessary to build a nuclear weapon. On Monday, 9th October ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- In the late twentieth century, French nuclear testing in the territory ... French community. In 1966 France began a nuclear testing program on uninhabited ...18 KB (2,636 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- In physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fusion is the process by ... and pressure inside a fusion reactor or nuclear weapon. ...39 KB (6,029 words) - 23:53, 16 November 2022
- as the first city in history subjected to nuclear warfare when the United ... , August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima ...32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
- by several interactions. The strong nuclear force, not observed at the ... except for the unlikely cases of a nuclear weapon detonation or an accident ...30 KB (4,559 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- progressed, hydro electric, coal, oil and nuclear power stations were built ... there have been developments in both nuclear and biological weaponry ...12 KB (1,940 words) - 21:14, 22 October 2022
- of the atom bomb and the danger of nuclear war. His wife, Evelyn Thompson ... American politics, ever watchful of the danger of nuclear war. ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- to the earth and humankind through nuclear warfare in the mid-twentieth ... offset the advantages of victory. With nuclear weapons, the fighting of ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- the two countries after they had developed nuclear weapons. (India and Pakistan ... with separatists in Kashmir as well as nuclear tests by both countries ...53 KB (8,038 words) - 18:09, 14 May 2024
- * The plutonium used in nuclear weapon pits is machined by alloying ... isotope of gallium, have been used in nuclear medicine imaging. This use ...15 KB (2,122 words) - 04:06, 18 April 2024
- to bring about the worldwide ban on above ground nuclear weapons testing. * Charles Pratt - founder of Pratt Institute. * John D. Rockefeller ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 03:17, 24 November 2022
- On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Forces dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima ...48 KB (7,479 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- von Neumann worked out key steps in the nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear ... tests in the Pacific or in later work on nuclear weapons at Los Alamos, New ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- Its short-lived isotope 99mTc is used in nuclear medicine for a wide variety ... a by-product of fission of uranium-235 in nuclear reactors and is extracted ...43 KB (6,283 words) - 22:03, 13 January 2024
- World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los ... * Nuclear weapon * Nuclear energy ==Notes== ==References== ...58 KB (8,808 words) - 01:10, 8 February 2023
- *In the film Crimson Tide, the naval officers of the nuclear submarine ... saw a machinegun, a tank, a Viet Cong, or a nuclear weapon. ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- work to stop the production and deployment of nuclear weapons. ==Programs and projects== Today, the AFSC has more than two hundred staff working ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- is why it was a top strategic location for nuclear weapons activities during ... to use the islands as a launching pad for nuclear warheads—contrary to Palau ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- the Church of Scotland is a firm opponent of nuclear weaponry. ==Governance and administration== The Church of Scotland is Presbyterian in polity ...20 KB (2,987 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
