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  2. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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    On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on August 15, six days after ...

  3. Tsar Bomba - Wikipedia

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    Tsar Bomba. The Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба, romanized: Tsar'-bomba, IPA: [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə], lit. ' Tsar bomb'; code name: Ivan[5] or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation " AN602 ", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. [6][7] The Soviet physicist Andrei ...

  4. Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll - Wikipedia

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    FH6-FK Hellcat unmanned aircraft are prepared for their flight through mushroom cloud. Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of 23 (or 24 [a]) nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Tests occurred at 7 test sites on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air, and ...

  5. Cobalt bomb - Wikipedia

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    Cobalt bomb. A cobalt bomb is a type of "salted bomb": a nuclear weapon designed to produce enhanced amounts of radioactive fallout, intended to contaminate a large area with radioactive material, potentially for the purpose of radiological warfare, mutual assured destruction or as doomsday devices. There is no firm evidence that such a device ...

  6. The Powder Toy - Wikipedia

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    The Powder Toy is free and open-source software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.0. [4] A total of 193 (more may have been added since this data was gathered) different in-game materials (or "elements"), each with custom behavior and interactions, are available in the game. [5] In June 2024, The Powder Toy was released on ...

  7. B-1 Nuclear Bomber - Wikipedia

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    Genre (s) Flight simulator. Mode (s) Single-player. B-1 Nuclear Bomber is a flight simulator developed by Avalon Hill and Microcomputer Games and released in 1980 for the Apple II and other computers. [2][3] The game is based on piloting a B-1 Lancer to its target and dropping a nuclear bomb. [4] The USSR is one of the target countries.

  8. Nuclear weapon design - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear weapon design. The first nuclear explosive devices provided the basic building blocks of future weapons. Pictured is the Gadget device being prepared for the Trinity nuclear test. Nuclear weapon designs are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package [1] of a nuclear weapon to detonate.

  9. Thermonuclear weapon - Wikipedia

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    A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation nuclear bombs, a more compact size, a lower mass, or a combination of these benefits. Characteristics of nuclear fusion reactions make possible ...