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How nuclear weapons work
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All isotopes exist in two forms: stable and unstable. These unstable isotopes are considered "radioactive" because they have too many neutrons compared with their protons. Nature abhors this imbalance and resolves it in a number of ways. It can turn a neutron into a proton, releasing a few protons and neutrons as "alpha particles" (which are basically helium without the electrons.) Or shed a neutron.
If shed neutrons are captured by other nearby isotopes and made unstable, the result can become a "chain reaction" where more neutrons are released by nearby atoms than absorbed. Under the right conditions, this can power cities. Left uncontrolled, it can destroy them.
Note: the final segment of this video is President Truman's address to the United States after the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
This video covers:
Types of Radiation
How a nuclear weapon works
Weapons effects,
Tactical and strategic warheads
Employment and delivery
Electromagnetic pulse.
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References:
Types of radiation.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/science-101/what-are-different-types-of-radiation.html
How Fuel is made:
https://www.world-nuclear.org/nuclear-essentials/how-is-uranium-made-into-nuclear-fuel.aspx
How neutrons make things radioactive
http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q12968.html
The Gun-type design.
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2011/11/08/the-mysterious-design-of-little-boy/
Where does the plutonium come from?
Plutonium-240
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-240
The Devastating Effects of Nuclear Weapons
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/devastating-effects-of-nuclear-weapons-war/
Irradiated food
https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/food-irradiation-what-you-need-know
Why Gamma rays are dangerous:
https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/stem-in-context/gamma-rays-helper-or-hazard
Why are there so many different ways to measure radiation exposure?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/03/sievert-gray-rem-and-rad-why-are-there-so-many-different-ways-to-measure-radiation-exposure.html#:~:text=They%20provide%20a%20measure%20of,the%20body%20in%20different%20ways.
REM Chart
https://www.atomicarchive.com/science/effects/radiation-effects-human.html
Don’t use conditioner
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/15/543647878/in-the-event-of-a-nuclear-blast-don-t-condition-your-hair
Diethylenetriamene pentaacetate (DTPA),
https://emergency.cdc.gov/radiation/pdf/dtpa.pdf
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PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN TALKS ON ATOMIC BOMBS
Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
8/6/1945
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