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| | Nuclear Weapons |
 | | Because the thermonuclear explosive devices used hydrogen isotopes, (deuterium-tritium fusion), the resulting bombs were often called "hydrogen bombs". | | | This is typically done with the isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium. | | | The only way which was found to produce the ignition temperature was to set off a fission bomb such that it would heat and compress the lithium hydride. |
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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene/bomb.html
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| | Hydrogen |
| | It is prepared by the action of steam on heated carbon, by decomposition of certain hydrocarbons with heat, by electrolysis of water, or by the displacement from acids by certain metals. | | | The lifting power of 1 ft^3 of hydrogen gas is about 0.07 lb at 0C, 760 mm pressure. | | | The melting and boiling points of parahydrogen are about 0.1C lower than those of normal hydrogen. |
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| | Chapter 3: Electrochemistry |
| | The 9 volt battery is connected to the carbon rods, which are under water in the bomb chamber. | | | The piezo-electric ignitor from the electronic lighter is pushed, which causes a spark to jump the spark gap, which ignites the hydrogen and oxygen. | | | Plug in a 9 volt battery, and watch as tiny bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen form on the carbon rods (or gold electrodes). |
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| | Permissive Action Links |
| | Bombs get their high voltage detonation current from a bank of capacitors; these in turn are charged from batteries. | | | The initiator supplies the initial neutrons to start the chain reaction; in a modern bomb, this is done by an electronic device. | | | A typical battery-driven charging circuit -- as is incorporated into ordinary electronic flash units -- works by pulsing the battery's DC output and feeding that into a transformer. |
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http://www.research.att.com/~smb/nsam-160/pal.html
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| | Documentation and Diagrams of the Atomic Bomb |
| | These high-level detonations are hardly lethal, yet they deliver a serious enough EMP to scramble any and all things electronic ranging from copper wires all the way up to a computer's CPU within a 50 mile radius. | | | This pulse system applies to the more advanced altimeter system, only the signal is continuous and centered around a high frequency such as 4200 MHz. | | | Once the air pressure has achieved the desired level, the magnetic bubble will snap back into its original position and strike the contact, thus completing the circuit and setting off the explosive(s). |
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http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/neutronics/todd/nuc.bomb.html
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| | Military/The Mike Shot, the First Hydrogen Bomb Detonation |
| | His key insight into the development of the fusion bomb may have been the recognition that compression of the nuclear material was necessary to produce an explosion, and that mechanical shock waves generated by a fission bomb could produce the force necessary. | | | Such a gadget [Hydrogen Bomb] should produce an explosive equivalent to 100,000,000 Tons of TNT, which in turn should produce Class B damage over an area of 3,000 square miles!" | | | Military/The Mike Shot, the First Hydrogen Bomb Detonation |
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http://mt.sopris.net/mpc/military/mike.html
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| | The Hydrogen Bomb Homepage, with stuff on the Cuban missile crisis and nuclear testing and transportation |
| | Ninety-seven percent of the power of the 50-MT bomb derived from thermonuclear fusion; that is to say, the bomb was remarkably “clean” and released a minimum of fission by-products which would elevate background radiation in the atmosphere. | | | The test of the bomb’s design confirmed the possibility of making a device of any power, however large. | | | This can be achieved by using chemical devices, i.e., imploding several small amounts (subcritical amounts) into a small volume inside the bomb. |
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http://www.bilderberg.org/hbomb.htm
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| | CNN Cold War - The Atomic Age: From fission to fallout |
| | Hydrogen, or fusion, bombs have delivered yields of up to nearly 60 megatons -- although most current nuclear devices have yields of less than 1 megaton. | | | A small explosion drove one piece of uranium into another with ferocious impact in a device similar to an artillery barrel -- creating the chain reaction. | | | Those weapons require an implosion-type atomic blast to create the heat and pressure needed to fuse the nuclei of two hydrogen isotopes, deuterium and tritium. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb/history.science
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Dark Sun : The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb |
| | It is difficult to believe that the making of the hydrogen bomb can be boring, but after page 245 of this tome, you will not want to replenish your Itty-Bitty- Book Light's batteries. | | | Write an online review and share your thoughts with other shoppers! | | | I recommend this work to you for two reasons: first, I believe it important for a citizen of the world to understand the development and initial employment of this "gadget" (as its creating physicists designated the bomb), and second, this is a fine read: significant history with minimal political taint. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684824140
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| | Nuclear weapon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Small, two-man portable tactical weapons (erroneously referred to as suitcase bombs), such as the Special Atomic Demolition Munition, have been developed, although the difficulty of balancing yield and portability limits their military utility. | | | In such a weapon, the X-ray thermal radiation from a nuclear fission explosion is used to heat and compress a capsule of tritium, deuterium, or lithium, in which fusion occurs, releasing even more energy. | | | Gravity bombs are designed to be dropped from planes, which requires that the weapon can withstand vibrations and changes in air temperature and pressure during the course of a flight. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_bomb
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| | H-Bomb and the Birth of the Universe |
| | Soon, the star like debris is overcome by the heating of the hydrogen and the blast becomes an ever brightening fireball. | | | Bomb debris has fanned out and lights up. | | | The images on the left represent a sequence of frames from the detonation of a hydrogen bomb. |
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http://www.vce.com/HBomb.html
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| | The Hydrogen Bomb In Bible Prophecy |
| | To our enemies Isaiah says, "Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers as the heat in a dry place, the heat with the shadow of a cloud." This could only refer to atom or hydrogen bombs, as in all other cases the shadow of a cloud gives some shelter from heat. | | | Four atoms of hydrogen combing together to produce one atom of helium, in the process giving off the most fantastic amount of heat. | | | Practically all scientists now agree that the heat of the stars is produced by exactly the same reaction as that we use to produce a hydrogen explosion, combining hydrogen atoms to make helium. |
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http://www.churchoftrueisrael.com/comparet/comp29.html
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| | Hydrogen bomb |
| | Fusion can release about 4 times more energy per unit mass than fission, and because fusion is only limited by the amount of material available, it is possible for a fusion bomb to release thousands times more power than an ordinary atom bomb. | | | The Hydrogen Bomb was formed by a process called fusion. | | | The temperatures need to be at millions of degrees Celsius, so the fusion occurs naturally on the sun, and other stars like it. |
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http://web1.caryacademy.org/chemistry/rushin/StudentProjects/CompoundWebSites/2000/Hydrogen/hydrogen_bomb.htm
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| | Edward Teller, Ph.D. Biography -- Academy of Achievement |
| | Teller hoped that both the fission and fusion options would be pursued at Los Alamos, but building the simpler fission device alone proved so complicated that fusion research was abandoned. | | | As early as 1940, Teller had considered the possibility of using the intense heat generated by nuclear fission to trigger the process called nuclear fusion -- an even more explosive phenomenon. | | | In 1945, the atom bomb was successfully tested at Alamagordo, New Mexico. |
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http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tel0bio-1
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| | USATODAY.com - Laser that simulates H-bomb may not see the light |
| | The device, which would focus 192 lasers at a single point to create a huge release of energy, is nearing completion at the Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons lab in Northern California. | | | Laser that simulates H-bomb may not see the light | | | WASHINGTON — A giant laser being built to simulate the explosion of a hydrogen bomb is facing funding cuts in the Senate that supporters say could kill the project after $2.8 billion has been spent on it. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2005-06-17-giant-laser_x.htm
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| | Eisenhower and the Cold War |
| | "Big Mike" 11/1/52 - 1st thermonuclear test of 10 megaton hydrogen bomb | | | Dulles speech Mar. 12 about "clean" nuclear strike | | | Ike pc Mar. 16 - bomb to "be used as you would use a bullet" |
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http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/coldwarike.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Hydrogen Bomb |
| | In the fusion reaction in a hydrogen bomb, two atoms of deuterium or tritium collide to produce a helium atom and extra neutrons. | | | To ignite this fusion reaction, an environment of tremendous heat is needed, comparable in temperature to heat generated by the Sun. | | | Hydrogen Bomb, also known as H-bomb or thermonuclear bomb, nuclear weapon in which a thermonuclear fusion reaction takes place among heavy isotopes of hydrogen (either deuterium or tritium) to produce an explosion. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761557090
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -HYDROGEN BOMB |
| | Usually an atomic bomb inside the thermonuclear device triggers the fusion reaction. | | | The hydrogen bomb explosion is produced by nuclear fusion—the collision of neutrons with the nucleus of an unstable isotope of hydrogen, either deuterium or tritium, under high temperatures. | | | The hydrogen bomb is a thermonuclear weapon capable of devastating 150 square miles by blast, with searing heat effects and radioactive fallout for more than 800 square miles, depending on the size of the weapon. |
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http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_044400_hydrogenbomb.htm
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| | Missing hydrogen bomb has possibly been found - PRAVDA.Ru |
| | The bomb is described as being a 7,600-pound, 12-foot-long thermonuclear device. | | | The bomb is described as being a 7,600-pound, 12-foot-long thermonuclear device | | | Cost estimates to remove the bomb would take as long as five years and cost $5 million to $11 million, but the volatility of the explosives used to cause nuclear fusion are still a clear and present danger, even though the risks of a nuclear detonation are very slight. |
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http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/399/14223_bomb.html
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| | The Hydrogen Bomb: The Basics Nuclear Fusion Science atomicarchive.com |
| | A fission bomb, called the primary, produces a flood of radiation including a large number of neutrons. | | | The neutrons react with the lithium in this chemical compound, producing tritium and helium. | | | This reaction produces the tritium on the spot, so there is no need to include tritium in the bomb itself. |
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http://www.atomicarchive.com/Fusion/Fusion2.shtml
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| | The American Experience Race for the Superbomb Edward Teller, (1908 - ) |
| | It began to seem feasible that this energy could be used to create a weapon of unprecedented power. | | | But when the Soviet Union conducted its first test of an atomic device in August 1949, he did his best to drum up support for a crash program to build a hydrogen bomb. | | | During the course of 1950, Teller was frustrated with the progress of the program. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX73.html
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| | BBC ON THIS DAY 1 1954: US tests hydrogen bomb in Bikini |
| | It is believed the hydrogen bomb was up to 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. | | | Unlike that device which tapped energy by splitting atomic nuclei, the Enewetak weapon forced together nuclei of hydrogen to unleash an even greater destructive force. | | | The first hydrogen bomb was detonated in the Pacific in 1952 |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/1/newsid_2781000/2781419.stm
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| | atomicarchive.com: Exploring the History, Science, and Consequences of the Atomic Bomb |
| | October 30 - General Advisory Committee of the AEC recommends that the more powerful atomic bombs should be built rather than hydrogen bombs. | | | October - Szilard recollects that "It occurred to me in October, 1933 that a chain reaction might be set up if an element could be found that would emit two neutrons when it swallowed one neutron."This idea became a classified British patent in 1935 before the fission was discovered. | | | This project is part of the National Science Digital Library funded by the Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation Grant 0434253 |
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http://www.atomicarchive.com
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| | Nuclear Files |
| | October 30, 1961 – Soviets test world’s most powerful atomic bomb. | | | October 16, 1964 – China tests its first atomic bomb. | | | October 16, 2002 – North Korea admits to nuclear weapons program. |
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| | CNN.com - Lost nuclear bomb possibly found - Sep 13, 2004 |
| | For years the lost bomb story has prompted interest and stories in the area around Savannah. | | | Smolinsky said experts from the Air Force, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy were examining the information and may decide soon to conduct their own tests with more sophisticated equipment on the scene. | | | The group said it used radiation and metal detection equipment to search an area in Wassaw Sound off Tybee Island where the bomb reportedly was dropped, the AP reported. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/13/lost.bomb
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| | hydrogen_bomb |
| | [n] a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium. | | | Link to this dictionary definition of hydrogen bomb |
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| | The Cold War, 1953-60 |
| | To add to the alarm, in March, 1954, the U.S. tested its first deliverable hydrogen bomb, on the island of Bikini in the Pacific - a blast 750 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. | | | And LeMay would like to have had control over use of the atomic bomb rather than what he called politicians who happened to have been elected president. | | | Similar to the Marxists in the Soviet Union, some would describe those in power in Washington as having as their primary goal an economic expansion that benefited U.S. corporations. |
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http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch24t60.html
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| | Edward Teller managed research for hydrogen bomb |
| | On January 31, 1950, President Truman approved hydrogen bomb development and testing, partly as a result of the first Soviet atomic test the previous August. | | | Edward Teller managed Los Alamos research on the "Super," as he called the hydrogen bomb. | | | In April 1946, Teller returned to Los Alamos and led a secret conference on the "Super." The conference reviewed his earlier work on fusion, which led to his full-time return to Los Alamos in 1949 to continue research on the hydrogen bomb. |
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http://www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/cw1.cfm
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| | The Cold War Museum - H-Bomb Development Summary |
| | Arguing that the only way to regain nuclear superiority would be the creation of a crash program aimed at the development of a new type of weapon -- a hydrogen bomb -- Strauss began an aggressive campaign to convince Truman of the merits of his proposal. | | | Hoping to keep the issue from the public until a firm decision had been made, Truman instructed all individuals involved in the process to avoid any mention of the possible hydrogen explosive to the press. | | | Concurring with his Secretary of State, Truman felt the United States had no alternative but to proceed with research and development of all forms of atomic weapons, including the hydrogen bomb, since negotiations with the Soviets regarding the issue seemed hopeless. |
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http://www.coldwar.org/articles/40s/h_bomb.html
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| | ZNet Asia Bikini and the Hydrogen Bomb: |
| | set off a hydrogen bomb test, dubbed Bravo, at the western end of | | | The two articles presented here detail the consequences of atomic and hydrogen bomb testing on Bikini and neighboring atolls, including the consequences for displaced people, the continued failure of the U.S. government to clean up the radioactive islands, and the long stalled negotiations with the U.S. government to compensate the people of Bikini.] | | | Their chief, known by the single name Juda, said then they were agreeing to it because he'd been told that the bombs would produce "kindness and benefit to all mankind," and his people could return after the tests. |
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http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=17&ItemID=6005
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| | J. Robert Oppenheimer Centennial - Exhibit |
| | It is indicative of the changing of hands of the bomb, moving from the responsibility of intellectual eclectics like Oppenheimer into the protocols of military rank and policy. | | | Oppenheimer thus represents as well the fundamental transformation of science during the Second World War. |
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http://ohst.berkeley.edu/oppenheimer/exhibit
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| | CNN - Cold War Experience: The Bomb |
| | Our interactive maps explore who has The Bomb, how many and where. | | | For nearly as long as there have been nuclear weapons, there has been vocal opposition to them -- and attempts by some governments to use those anti-nuclear groups as Cold War weapons. | | | The Cold War may be over, but the world is still bristling with nuclear weapons. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb
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| | Citizen Kurchatov |
| | It is the story of Igor Kurchatov, born in 1903, who, while not a child of the Russian revolution, believed it would lead to a bright future of scientific socialism. | | | Although Kurchatov was a scientist open to western ideas, he also flourished under the anti-western politics of his time. | | | Citizen Kurchatov is the story of a complex, world-class physicist who became the driving force behind the Soviet Union's race to develop the atomic bomb. |
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http://www.pbs.org/opb/citizenk
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| | Hydrogen bomb quotes & quotations |
| | Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. | | | Quotes with keywords > H > HY > hydrogen bomb | | | Find product related with Hydrogen bomb quotes on Amazon |
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| | The Nuclear Weapon Archive - A Guide to Nuclear Weapons |
| | Nuclear Data Table Index For up-to-date data on nuclear forces for all powers (and more), this is the place to go! | | | ...And these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men who used them. | | | The Internet and the Bomb: A Research Guide to Policy and Information about Nuclear Weapons, at the NRDC, the best collection of nuclear-related links in existence. |
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http://nuclearweaponarchive.org
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| | Andrei Sakharov: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons and Human Rights |
| | He was fascinated by fundamental physics and cosmology, but first he spent two decades designing nuclear weapons. | | | He came to be regarded as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, contributing perhaps more than anyone else to the military might of the USSR. | | | But gradually Sakharov became one of the regime’s most courageous critics, a defender of human rights and democracy. |
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http://www.aip.org/history/sakharov
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