Nuclear Weapons

Abstract3

Introduction4

Discussion5

Energy of Nuclear Weapons Explosion5

Types of Nuclear Weapons6

Pure Fission Weapons7

Boosted Fission Weapons7

Thermonuclear Weapons8

Enhanced Radiation Weapons8

Salted Nuclear Weapons8

Pure Fusion Weapons9

Effects of Nuclear Weapons Detonations9

Atomic Weapon Blast Effects9

Radiation Effects10

The Effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombs10

Conclusion11

References12

Abstract

Nuclear weapons are considered as the tools for mass destruction; on the other hand these are also used for the power generation and maintain peace all over the world. This research papers aims to explore the nuclear weapons, along with its different types, energy of nuclear weapons explosion, effects of nuclear weapons detonations, and the effects and causes of destructions from nuclear weapons more particularly the case of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Nuclear Weapons

Introduction

Nuclear weapons are always considered as a means of mass destruction. Nuclear weapons are explosive device, which derives its caustic energy from nuclear sooner than chemical reactions. The researches have shown that a nuclear reaction can releases around a million or more than that energy than a chemical reaction does (Newton, 2011). This distinction makes a nuclear weapon more dominant as compare to a conventional weapon. It is a fact that nuclear weapons are greatly more powerful as compared to the conventional ones. These weapons can cause destruction and death on a larger scale. They are certainly weapons for the mass destruction. However, there is one more side of this as these weapons can also be utilized to generate clean energy (Merriman and Winter, 2006). Furthermore, nuclear weapons might even promote relax and peace tensions among the countries. Considering the case of subcontinent, peace controls the political background of the region; not regardless of the presence of these nuclear weapons although because of this. Nuclear weapons are helpful for countries for producing energy, however alternatively it may also cause confrontational environment (Clark, 2005).

This research paper aims to explore nuclear weapons, along with its different types, energy of nuclear weapons explosion, effects of nuclear weapons detonations, and the effects and causes of destructions from nuclear weapons more particularly the case of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Discussion

Explosion caused by the nuclear weapons is considered as the most devastating mass destruction. In order to make this point clearer, one just need to review the pictures from Nagasaki, Hiroshima or the worldwide disturbance over the unintentional yet colossal radiation discharge from the power plant of Chernobyl (Batten, 2010). The contagion from Chernobyl was considerably bigger than might have been anticipated from an atomic explosion of around the range of 20 kT at the ground level, however was tantamount in the degree to what may come about because of a small atomic war in which twelve or something like that weapons of ostensible yield were blasted at elevations intended to expand the damage from the blast (Lerner and Lerner, 2008).

A nuclear explosion makes an intense environment incorporating impact, warm beat, neutrons, radiation, gamma and x-rays, electromagnetic pulse, and ionization of the atmosphere. Contingent on the atmosphere in which the atomic device is exploded, explosion impacts are showed as water shock, ground shock, cratering, blueout, and a lot ...