10 Facts About Nuclear device

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Nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion reactions, producing a nuclear explosion.

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Nuclear device bombs have had yields between 10 tons TNT and 50 megatons for the Tsar Bomba.

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Nuclear device weapons have been deployed twice in war, by the United States against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 during World War II.

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Nuclear device weapons have only twice been used in war, both times by the United States against Japan near the end of World War II.

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Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear device Weapons aims to reduce the spread of nuclear weapons, but its effectiveness has been questioned.

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Such a device might provide a simpler path to thermonuclear weapons than one that required the development of fission weapons first, and pure fusion weapons would create significantly less nuclear fallout than other thermonuclear weapons because they would not disperse fission products.

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Nuclear device isomers provide a possible pathway to fissionless fusion bombs.

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Nuclear device warfare strategy is a set of policies that deal with preventing or fighting a nuclear war.

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Nuclear device disarmament refers to both the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-free world, in which nuclear weapons are eliminated.

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The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear device War believe that nuclear war could indirectly contribute to human extinction via secondary effects, including environmental consequences, societal breakdown, and economic collapse.

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