Nuclear Weapons Engineer Nuclear Bomb Zone Map

9 minutes a few days ago i was doing research on nuclear war world war 3 and potential nuclear targets and safe distances from those target sites when i came across the nukemap.

Nuclear energy wikipedia nuclear weapon free zones. Nuclear target map is an interesting and unique program unlike other nuclear target maps because it lets you pick the target and what size nuclear device that the area you chose is hit with. Similar to the nuclear non proliferation treaty five treaties on regional nuclear weapons free zones require parties to conclude a comprehensive safeguards agreement with the iaea. World war ii combat zone 3402340n 13202720e 34394380n 132455470e 3439438.

For more about the nuclear past and present follow atwellerstein on twitter and read restricted data. The trinity nuclear site was originally private property taken over by the army to test the plutonium implosion weapon the first nuclear explosion on earth. In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons these are the united states russia the successor state to the soviet union the united kingdom france and china.

The resultant five mile wide fireball was visible from 600 miles away. A nuclear weapon free zone nwfz is defined by the united nations as an agreement which a group of states has freely established by treaty or convention that bans the development manufacturing control possession testing stationing or transporting of nuclear weapons in a given area that has mechanisms of verification and control to enforce its obligations and that is recognized as such. From the 1960s to the 1990s south africa pursued research into weapons of mass destruction including nuclear biological and chemical weaponssix nuclear weapons were assembled.

Five are considered to be nuclear weapon states nws under the terms of the treaty on the non proliferation of nuclear weapons npt. 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. Fat man was the codename for the nuclear bomb that was detonated over the japanese city of nagasaki by the united states on 9 august 1945.

These treaties cover latin america and the caribbean the south pacific southeast asia africa and central asia. The most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested was the tsar bomba a 50 megaton behemoth detonated by the soviet union in 1961. Before the anticipated changeover to a majority elected african national congressled government in the 1990s the south african government dismantled all of its nuclear weapons the first state in the world which.

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