Fission and Fusion/ Nuclear Weapons

Defcon 6

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I have created this thread to teach people some of the basics of nuclear weapons, should they be interested.

First we have fission. Fission is simply the process of splitting or dividing an atom of nuclear reactive type. The uranium isotope is most popular for this type of reaction. A fission reaction is very dirty, giving off very large doses of radiation in comparison to fusion. Fission reactions can never approach the potential of Fusion reactions. Fission reactions most liekly never exceed 700 KT. And ICBM re-entry vehicles never exceed 300 Kt usually, however soviet built ICBM's used single warheads more often indicating far higher yields.

Fusion reactions is simply fusing two hydrogen atoms together. This is what we call fusion reactions. Also this is what an H-Bomb does. Hydrogen bombs can exceed fission reactions by an infitinite ammount, so far the most powerful bomb ever deonated was dentonated by the soviet union, called the Tzar/Tsar bomb or King of Bombs. It was rated for 100 MT but was decided to be detonated at half that, 54 MT. The shockwave circled the earth seven times.
 

vrus

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Which countries have thermonuclear devices in the world as part of their nuclear arsenal ? And can you tell me what you know about "The Nuclear Triad" ?
 

Defcon 6

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A nuclear triad refers to the 3 means of nuclear attack, bombers, ICBM's, and ballistic missile submarines. More often it pertains to the organization of nuclear forces, which consists of bombers, ICBM's and ballistic missile submarines.

The U.S and Russia currently carry thermonuclear bombs in their arsenals, however they are very few in number. Currently they exist as certain B83 Strategic Bombs and have a yield of about 1.2 MT, however most B83 SB's are actually fission bombs of about 300+ kt.
 
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