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Bookmark or Share- Atomic Bomb: Nuclear Bomb, Hiroshima & Nagasaki ‑ HISTORYThe atomic bomb and nuclear bombs are powerful weapons that use nuclear reactions as their source of explosive energy. Scientists first developed nuclear weapons technology during World War...
- Fat Man - WikipediaFat Man was an implosion-type nuclear weapon with a solid plutonium core. The first of that type to be detonated was the Gadget in the Trinity nuclear test less than a month earlier on 16 July at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico.
- Nuclear weapon - WikipediaWeapons whose explosive output is exclusively from fission reactions are commonly referred to as atomic bombs or atom bombs (abbreviated as A-bombs). This has long been noted as something of a misnomer, as their energy comes from the nucleus of the atom, just as it does with fusion weapons.
- "The Bomb" (Documentary) Nuclear weapons - BBC 2017 - YouTubePhysicists all over the world immediately realized that fission might make a bomb of extraordinary power — and that Nazi Germany might be capable of creating one. The fear of Adolph Hitler...
- Atomic bomb | History, Properties, Proliferation, & Facts - Britannicaatomic bomb, weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of a heavy element such as plutonium or uranium. Fission Sequence of events in the fission of a uranium nucleus by a neutron.
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