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A similar chart focusing solely on quantity of warheads in the multi-megaton range is also available. [17] Moreover, total deployed US & "Russian" strategic weapons increased steadily from the 1980s until the Cold War ended. [18] The United States nuclear stockpile increased rapidly from 1945, peaked in 1966, and declined after that. [1]
The Castle Bravo fallout plume spread dangerous levels of radioactive material over an area over 100 miles (160 km) long, including inhabited islands, in the largest single U.S. nuclear accident. The United States nuclear program since its inception has experienced accidents of varying forms, ranging from single-casualty research experiments ...
The Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues contains over 3,500 annotations, which have been reviewed by members of its National Advisory Board of experts in many disciplines. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Its entries are both searchable as full-text and hierarchically browsable in six major categories: issues, science, warfare, people, places, and disciplines ...
The United States is known to have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.As the country that invented nuclear weapons, the U.S. is the only country to have used nuclear weapons on another country, when it detonated two atomic bombs over two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
Scientists charged with ensuring the aging U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons are good to go — if needed — say they'll start shipping key components to Nevada's desert next year to prepare for ...
Note that raw stockpile totals do not necessarily tell you much about nuclear capabilities; delivery mechanisms and types of weapons can make a big difference (many of the weapons added to the stockpile during the "surge" periods were tactical, not strategic, for example)
More than 70 years after Los Alamos scientists blasted the New Mexico desert with the world?s first atomic explosion, three labs remain.
The United States currently gets about 20% of its power from nuclear. Inside the US Energy Department, there’s high interest to increase that percentage in the coming years because nuclear ...