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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 bombboth bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter.

Nuclear meaning root rusia jaman dulu. The initial rationale for reprocessing in the 1950s to the 1980s was the cold war demand for fissile material to make nuclear weapons. Reprocessing is the name given to the physico chemical treatment of spent nuclear fuel carried on at sellafield in cumbria since the 1950s. Nuclear fission of heavy elements was discovered on december 17 1938 by german otto hahn and his assistant fritz strassmann and explained theoretically in january 1939 by lise meitner and her nephew otto robert frischfrisch named the process by analogy with biological fission of living cells.

In fact it. For heavy nuclides it is an exothermic reaction which can release large amounts of energy both as. See nuclear physicist ted taylors book the curve of binding energy by john mcphee first printed in 1974.

Nash mikael nilsson in reprocessing and recycling of spent nuclear fuel 2015. For further info on how these newer weapons work. 141 nuclear weapons development.

Nuclear fission was discovered in the late 1930s in germany rhodes 1986 shortly before the outbreak of world war iithe leap from discovery to consideration of the possible impact of creating weapons based on this discovery took only a very short time.