Drag the marker to wherever you d like to target. You might also try. Nukemap is a mapping mash up that calculates the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb.
Since then controlling the proliferation of nuclear weapons has been an important issue in international relations and the two detonations in japan remained the only ever usage in warfare. The first nuclear weapons were detonated over hiroshima and nagasaki in august 1945. Nuclear weapons technology was developed during the 1930s and 1940s.
When a neutron strikes the nucleus of an atom of the isotopes uranium 235 or plutonium 239 it causes that nucleus to split into two fragments each of which is a nucleus with about half the protons and neutrons of the original nucleus in the process of splitting a great amount of thermal energy as well as gamma rays and two or more neutrons is. The properties and effects of atomic bombs. Nuclear explosions can destroy a city and kill most of its people.
A nuclear weapon also known as a nuclear bomb or a nuke is a weapon that suddenly releases the energy in the nucleus of certain types of atoms when triggered these devices release a huge amount of energy in the form of a nuclear explosion. Here troops in the 11th airborne division watch an atomic explosion at close. In the 75 years since the first successful test of a plutonium bomb nuclear weapons have changed the face of warfare.
This is why the world s governments are trying to control the spread of nuclear bomb making technology and materials and reduce the arsenal of nuclear weapons deployed during the cold war. Nuclear weapons have incredible long term destructive power that travels far beyond the original target. Their significance may best be appreciated by the coining of the words kiloton 1 000 tons and megaton 1 000 000 tons to describe their blast energy in equivalent weights of the conventional chemical explosive tnt for example the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima japan in 1945 containing only about 64 kg 140 pounds of highly enriched.
Nuclear weapons produce enormous explosive energy. The united states detonated two nuclear weapons over the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki on august 6 and 9 1945 respectively with the consent of the united kingdom as required by the quebec agreement the two bombings killed between 129 000 and 226 000 people most of whom were civilians and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. A nuclear weapon also called an atom bomb nuke atomic bomb nuclear warhead a bomb or nuclear bomb is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions either fission fission bomb or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions thermonuclear bomb both bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter.
