OutgoingIncoming

🌟We've simplified our design for better navigation!

Table of Contents

1. 395 relations: Acute radiation syndrome, Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Aerial refueling, African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, AIM-26 Falcon, AIR-2 Genie, Aircraft, Albert Einstein, Aldermaston, Aldermaston Marches, Almería, American Experience, Americium, Anti-submarine warfare, Antimatter, Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic demolition munition, Atomic nucleus, Atomic Weapons Establishment, Australasian Science, B28 nuclear bomb, B43 nuclear bomb, B53 nuclear bomb, B61 nuclear bomb, Ballistics, Barack Obama, Battle, Belarus, Belgium, Berkshire, Bertrand Russell, Biological agent, Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, BOMARC missile accident site, Bomb, Boosted fission weapon, Boston, Brian Martin (social scientist), British Columbia, Brookings Institution, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Canal, Caribbean, Castle Bravo, Casus belli, Cataract, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ... Expand index (345 more) » « Shrink index

2. Bombs
3. Nuclear bombs
4. Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1945

Acute radiation syndrome

Acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness or radiation poisoning, is a collection of health effects that are caused by being exposed to high amounts of ionizing radiation in a short period of time.

See Nuclear weapon and Acute radiation syndrome

Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons

Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons is a landmark international law case, where the International Court of Justice gave an advisory opinion stating that while the threat or use of nuclear weapons would generally be contrary to international humanitarian law, it cannot be concluded whether or not such a threat or use of nuclear weapons would be lawful in extreme circumstances where the very survival of a state would be at stake.

See Nuclear weapon and Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons

Aerial refueling

Aerial refueling, also referred to as air refueling, in-flight refueling (IFR), air-to-air refueling (AAR), and tanking, is the process of transferring aviation fuel from one aircraft (the tanker) to another (the receiver) while both aircraft are in flight.

See Nuclear weapon and Aerial refueling

African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty

The African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Pelindaba (named after South Africa's main nuclear research facility, run by the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA) and was the location where South Africa's atomic bombs of the 1970s were developed, constructed and subsequently stored), establishes a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Africa.

See Nuclear weapon and African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty

AIM-26 Falcon

The AIM-26 Falcon was a larger, more powerful version of the AIM-4 Falcon air-to-air missile built by Hughes.

See Nuclear weapon and AIM-26 Falcon

AIR-2 Genie

The Douglas AIR-2 Genie (previous designation MB-1) was an unguided air-to-air rocket with a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead.

See Nuclear weapon and AIR-2 Genie

Aircraft

An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.

See Nuclear weapon and Aircraft

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".

See Nuclear weapon and Albert Einstein

Aldermaston

Aldermaston is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England.

See Nuclear weapon and Aldermaston

Aldermaston Marches

The Aldermaston marches were anti-nuclear weapons demonstrations in the 1950s and 1960s, taking place on Easter weekend between the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, and London, over a distance of fifty-two miles, or roughly 83 km.

See Nuclear weapon and Aldermaston Marches

Almería

Almería is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia.

See Nuclear weapon and Almería

American Experience

American Experience is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States.

See Nuclear weapon and American Experience

Americium

Americium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Am and atomic number 95.

See Nuclear weapon and Americium

Anti-submarine warfare

Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in the older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines.

See Nuclear weapon and Anti-submarine warfare

Antimatter

In modern physics, antimatter is defined as matter composed of the antiparticles (or "partners") of the corresponding particles in "ordinary" matter, and can be thought of as matter with reversed charge, parity, and time, known as CPT reversal.

See Nuclear weapon and Antimatter

Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion

Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion (also antiproton-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion) is a variation of nuclear pulse propulsion based upon the injection of antimatter into a mass of nuclear fuel to initiate a nuclear chain reaction for propulsion when the fuel does not normally have a critical mass.

See Nuclear weapon and Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

See Nuclear weapon and Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Atomic demolition munition

Atomic demolition munitions (ADMs), colloquially known as nuclear land mines, are small nuclear explosive devices.

See Nuclear weapon and Atomic demolition munition

Atomic nucleus

The atomic nucleus is the small, dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford based on the 1909 Geiger–Marsden gold foil experiment.

See Nuclear weapon and Atomic nucleus

Atomic Weapons Establishment

The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is a United Kingdom Ministry of Defence research facility responsible for the design, manufacture and support of warheads for the UK's nuclear weapons. It is the successor to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) with its main site on the former RAF Aldermaston and has major facilities at Burghfield, Blacknest and RNAD Coulport.

See Nuclear weapon and Atomic Weapons Establishment

Australasian Science

Australasian Science was a bimonthly science magazine published in Australia and was the longest-running scientific publication in the country, from 1938 to 2019.

See Nuclear weapon and Australasian Science

B28 nuclear bomb

The B28, originally Mark 28, was a thermonuclear bomb carried by U.S. tactical fighter bombers, attack aircraft and bomber aircraft.

See Nuclear weapon and B28 nuclear bomb

B43 nuclear bomb

The B43 was a United States air-dropped variable yield thermonuclear weapon used by a wide variety of fighter bomber and bomber aircraft.

See Nuclear weapon and B43 nuclear bomb

B53 nuclear bomb

The Mk/B53 was a high-yield bunker buster thermonuclear weapon developed by the United States during the Cold War.

See Nuclear weapon and B53 nuclear bomb

B61 nuclear bomb

The B61 nuclear bomb is the primary thermonuclear gravity bomb in the United States Enduring Stockpile following the end of the Cold War.

See Nuclear weapon and B61 nuclear bomb

Ballistics

Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles, especially ranged weapon munitions such as bullets, unguided bombs, rockets or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance.

See Nuclear weapon and Ballistics

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

See Nuclear weapon and Barack Obama

Battle

A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size.

See Nuclear weapon and Battle

Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

See Nuclear weapon and Belarus

Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

See Nuclear weapon and Belgium

Berkshire

The Royal County of Berkshire, commonly known as simply Berkshire (abbreviated Berks.), is a ceremonial county in South East England.

See Nuclear weapon and Berkshire

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, logician, philosopher, and public intellectual.

See Nuclear weapon and Bertrand Russell

Biological agent

Biological weapons are pathogens used as weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Biological agent

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber.

See Nuclear weapon and Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker

The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an American military aerial refueling tanker aircraft that was developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, alongside the Boeing 707 airliner.

See Nuclear weapon and Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker

BOMARC missile accident site

BOMARC Site RW-01 is a fenced-off site contaminated primarily with "weapons-grade plutonium (WGP), highly-enriched and depleted uranium." On 7 June 1960 an explosion in a CIM-10 Bomarc missile fuel tank caused the accident and subsequent contamination.

See Nuclear weapon and BOMARC missile accident site

Bomb

A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Nuclear weapon and bomb are bombs.

See Nuclear weapon and Bomb

Boosted fission weapon

A boosted fission weapon usually refers to a type of nuclear bomb that uses a small amount of fusion fuel to increase the rate, and thus yield, of a fission reaction. Nuclear weapon and boosted fission weapon are American inventions.

See Nuclear weapon and Boosted fission weapon

Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

See Nuclear weapon and Boston

Brian Martin (social scientist)

Brian Martin (born 1947) is a social scientist in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in NSW, Australia.

See Nuclear weapon and Brian Martin (social scientist)

British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

See Nuclear weapon and British Columbia

Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.

See Nuclear weapon and Brookings Institution

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a nonprofit organization concerning science and global security issues resulting from accelerating technological advances that have negative consequences for humanity.

See Nuclear weapon and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

See Nuclear weapon and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Canal

Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).

See Nuclear weapon and Canal

Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

See Nuclear weapon and Caribbean

Castle Bravo

Castle Bravo was the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle.

See Nuclear weapon and Castle Bravo

Casus belli

A casus belli is an act or an event that either provokes or is used to justify a war.

See Nuclear weapon and Casus belli

Cataract

A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of the eye that leads to a decrease in vision of the eye.

See Nuclear weapon and Cataract

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.

See Nuclear weapon and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone

The Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (CANWFZ) treaty is a legally binding commitment by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan not to manufacture, acquire, test, or possess nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone

Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France.

See Nuclear weapon and Charles de Gaulle

Charter of the United Nations

The Charter of the United Nations (UN) is the foundational treaty of the United Nations.

See Nuclear weapon and Charter of the United Nations

Chemical weapon

A chemical weapon (CW) is a specialized munition that uses chemicals formulated to inflict death or harm on humans.

See Nuclear weapon and Chemical weapon

China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

See Nuclear weapon and China

China and weapons of mass destruction

The People's Republic of China has developed and possesses weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and China and weapons of mass destruction

Chuck Hansen

Chuck Hansen (May 13, 1947 - March 26, 2003) was the compiler, over a period of 30 years, of the world's largest private collection of unclassified documents on how America developed atomic and thermonuclear weapons. Nuclear weapon and Chuck Hansen are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Chuck Hansen

CIM-10 Bomarc

The Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc ("Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center") (IM-99 Weapon System prior to September 1962) was a supersonic ramjet powered long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) used during the Cold War for the air defense of North America.

See Nuclear weapon and CIM-10 Bomarc

Civil defense

Civil defense or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from human-made and natural disasters.

See Nuclear weapon and Civil defense

Civilian

A civilian is a person who is not a member of an armed force nor a person engaged in hostilities.

See Nuclear weapon and Civilian

CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

See Nuclear weapon and CNN

Cobalt

Cobalt is a chemical element; it has symbol Co and atomic number 27.

See Nuclear weapon and Cobalt

Cobalt bomb

A cobalt bomb is a type of "salted bomb": a nuclear weapon designed to produce enhanced amounts of radioactive fallout, intended to contaminate a large area with radioactive material, potentially for the purpose of radiological warfare, mutual assured destruction or as doomsday devices. Nuclear weapon and cobalt bomb are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Cobalt bomb

Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

See Nuclear weapon and Cold War

Command and Control (book)

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety is a 2013 nonfiction book by Eric Schlosser about the history of nuclear weapons systems and accidents involving nuclear weapons in the United States.

See Nuclear weapon and Command and Control (book)

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty to ban nuclear weapons test explosions and any other nuclear explosions, for both civilian and military purposes, in all environments.

See Nuclear weapon and Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

Conventional weapon

The terms conventional weapons or conventional arms generally refer to weapons whose ability to damage comes from kinetic, incendiary, or explosive energy and exclude weapons of mass destruction (e.g. nuclear, biological, radiological and chemical weapons).

See Nuclear weapon and Conventional weapon

Cosmic bomb (phrase)

"Cosmic bomb" was another name for the atomic bomb. Nuclear weapon and Cosmic bomb (phrase) are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Cosmic bomb (phrase)

Critical mass

In nuclear engineering, a critical mass is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction.

See Nuclear weapon and Critical mass

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba.

See Nuclear weapon and Cuban Missile Crisis

Cyberweapon

Cyberweapons are commonly defined as malware agents employed for military, paramilitary, or intelligence objectives as part of a cyberattack.

See Nuclear weapon and Cyberweapon

Cyrus S. Eaton

Cyrus Stephen Eaton Sr. (December 27, 1883 – May 9, 1979) was a Canadian-American investment banker, businessman and philanthropist, with a career that spanned 70 years.

See Nuclear weapon and Cyrus S. Eaton

Daigo Fukuryū Maru

was a Japanese tuna fishing boat with a crew of 23 men which was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954.

See Nuclear weapon and Daigo Fukuryū Maru

Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst.

See Nuclear weapon and Daniel Ellsberg

Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Substantial debate exists over the ethical, legal, and military aspects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 respectively at the close of World War II (1939–45).

See Nuclear weapon and Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Defense News

Defense News is a website and newspaper about the politics, business, and technology of national security published by Sightline Media Group.

See Nuclear weapon and Defense News

Demon core

The demon core was a sphere of plutonium that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents when scientists tested it as a fissile core of an early atomic bomb. Nuclear weapon and demon core are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Demon core

Depleted uranium

Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope 235U than natural uranium.

See Nuclear weapon and Depleted uranium

Depth charge

A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock.

See Nuclear weapon and Depth charge

Deterrence theory

Deterrence theory refers to the scholarship and practice of how threats of using force by one party can convince another party to refrain from initiating some other course of action.

See Nuclear weapon and Deterrence theory

Deuterium

Deuterium (hydrogen-2, symbol H or D, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen (the other is protium, or hydrogen-1).

See Nuclear weapon and Deuterium

Dirty bomb

A dirty bomb or radiological dispersal device is a radiological weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. Nuclear weapon and dirty bomb are bombs and nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Dirty bomb

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

See Nuclear weapon and Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations

The Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations is a U.S. Department of Defense document publicly discovered in 2005 on the circumstances under which commanders of U.S. forces could request the use of nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations

Doomsday Clock

The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

See Nuclear weapon and Doomsday Clock

Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single-seat subsonic carrier-capable light attack aircraft designed and produced by the American aerospace manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company, and later, McDonnell Douglas.

See Nuclear weapon and Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

Easter

Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.

See Nuclear weapon and Easter

Economic development

In the economics study of the public sector, economic and social development is the process by which the economic well-being and quality of life of a nation, region, local community, or an individual are improved according to targeted goals and objectives.

See Nuclear weapon and Economic development

Ejection seat

In aircraft, an ejection seat or ejector seat is a system designed to rescue the pilot or other crew of an aircraft (usually military) in an emergency.

See Nuclear weapon and Ejection seat

Electric charge

Electric charge (symbol q, sometimes Q) is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field.

See Nuclear weapon and Electric charge

Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

See Nuclear weapon and Empire of Japan

Enriched uranium

Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 (written 235U) has been increased through the process of isotope separation.

See Nuclear weapon and Enriched uranium

Environmental remediation

Environmental remediation is the cleanup of hazardous substances dealing with the removal, treatment and containment of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment.

See Nuclear weapon and Environmental remediation

Eric Schlosser

Eric Matthew Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and author known for his investigative journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013).

See Nuclear weapon and Eric Schlosser

Ernest Moniz

Ernest Jeffrey Moniz, GCIH (born December 22, 1944) is an American nuclear physicist and former government official.

See Nuclear weapon and Ernest Moniz

Ethics

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.

See Nuclear weapon and Ethics

Explosive device

An explosive device is a device that relies on the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide a violent release of energy.

See Nuclear weapon and Explosive device

Explosive lens

An explosive lens—as used, for example, in nuclear weapons—is a highly specialized shaped charge.

See Nuclear weapon and Explosive lens

Exponential growth

Exponential growth is a process that increases quantity over time at an ever-increasing rate.

See Nuclear weapon and Exponential growth

Fat Man

"Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) was the codename for the type of nuclear weapon the United States detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. Nuclear weapon and Fat Man are weapons and ammunition introduced in 1945.

See Nuclear weapon and Fat Man

Fear

Fear is an intensely unpleasant primal emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat.

See Nuclear weapon and Fear

Fighter-bomber

A fighter-bomber is a fighter aircraft that has been modified, or used primarily, as a light bomber or attack aircraft.

See Nuclear weapon and Fighter-bomber

Firearm

A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and used by an individual.

See Nuclear weapon and Firearm

Firestorm

A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system.

See Nuclear weapon and Firestorm

First strike (nuclear strategy)

In nuclear strategy, a first strike or preemptive strike is a preemptive surprise attack employing overwhelming force.

See Nuclear weapon and First strike (nuclear strategy)

Fissile material

In nuclear engineering, fissile material is material that can undergo nuclear fission when struck by a neutron of low energy.

See Nuclear weapon and Fissile material

Fission barrier

In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, the fission barrier is the activation energy required for a nucleus of an atom to undergo fission.

See Nuclear weapon and Fission barrier

Force de dissuasion

The Force de dissuasion ('Deterrence Force'), known as the Force de frappe ('Strike Force') prior to 1961,Gunston, Bill.

See Nuclear weapon and Force de dissuasion

Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.

See Nuclear weapon and Foreign Affairs

France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

See Nuclear weapon and France

France and weapons of mass destruction

France is one of the five "Nuclear Weapons States" under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and France and weapons of mass destruction

Fred Kaplan (journalist)

Fred M. Kaplan (born July 4, 1954) is an American author and journalist.

See Nuclear weapon and Fred Kaplan (journalist)

Game theory

Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions.

See Nuclear weapon and Game theory

Gamma ray

A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei.

See Nuclear weapon and Gamma ray

Geneva Conventions

language.

See Nuclear weapon and Geneva Conventions

George Shultz

George Pratt Shultz (December 13, 1920February 6, 2021) was an American economist, businessman, diplomat and statesman.

See Nuclear weapon and George Shultz

Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

See Nuclear weapon and Germany

Global catastrophic risk

A global catastrophic risk or a doomsday scenario is a hypothetical event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, even endangering or destroying modern civilization.

See Nuclear weapon and Global catastrophic risk

Global North and Global South

Global North and Global South are terms that denote a method of grouping countries based on their defining characteristics with regard to socioeconomics and politics.

See Nuclear weapon and Global North and Global South

Global Zero (campaign)

Global Zero is an international non-partisan group of 300 world leaders dedicated to achieving the elimination of nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Global Zero (campaign)

Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

See Nuclear weapon and Gold

Goldsboro, North Carolina

Goldsboro, originally Goldsborough, is a city in and the county seat of Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.

See Nuclear weapon and Goldsboro, North Carolina

Graham Allison

Graham Tillett Allison Jr. (born March 23, 1940) is an American political scientist and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

See Nuclear weapon and Graham Allison

Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

See Nuclear weapon and Greenland

Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.

See Nuclear weapon and Habitat destruction

Hafnium controversy

The hafnium controversy was a debate over the possibility of 'triggering' rapid energy releases, via gamma ray emission, from a nuclear isomer of hafnium, 178m2Hf.

See Nuclear weapon and Hafnium controversy

Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907

The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 are a series of international treaties and declarations negotiated at two international peace conferences at The Hague in the Netherlands.

See Nuclear weapon and Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907

Half-life

Half-life (symbol) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value.

See Nuclear weapon and Half-life

Hanford Site

The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the United States federal government on the Columbia River in Benton County in the U.S. state of Washington.

See Nuclear weapon and Hanford Site

Hans Bethe

Hans Albrecht Bethe (July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.

See Nuclear weapon and Hans Bethe

Harry Daghlian

Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr. (May 4, 1921 – September 15, 1945) was an American physicist with the Manhattan Project, which designed and produced the atomic bombs that were used in World War II.

See Nuclear weapon and Harry Daghlian

Head of government

In the executive branch, the head of government is the highest or the second-highest official of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a group of ministers or secretaries who lead executive departments.

See Nuclear weapon and Head of government

Head of state

A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state.

See Nuclear weapon and Head of state

Henry DeWolf Smyth

Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth (May 1, 1898September 11, 1986) was an American physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat.

See Nuclear weapon and Henry DeWolf Smyth

Henry Kissinger

Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

See Nuclear weapon and Henry Kissinger

Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.

See Nuclear weapon and Hiroshima

Human extinction

Human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact or large-scale volcanism, or via anthropogenic destruction (self-extinction), for example by sub-replacement fertility.

See Nuclear weapon and Human extinction

Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.

See Nuclear weapon and Hydrogen

Hypergolic propellant

A hypergolic propellant is a rocket propellant combination used in a rocket engine, whose components spontaneously ignite when they come into contact with each other.

See Nuclear weapon and Hypergolic propellant

Hypersonic weapon

A hypersonic weapon is a weapon capable of travelling at hypersonic speed, defined as between 5 and 25 times the speed of sound or about.

See Nuclear weapon and Hypersonic weapon

India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

See Nuclear weapon and India

India and weapons of mass destruction

India possesses nuclear weapons and previously developed chemical weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and India and weapons of mass destruction

India–Pakistan relations

India–Pakistan relations are the bilateral ties between the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

See Nuclear weapon and India–Pakistan relations

Institute for Science and International Security

The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) is a nonprofit, non-governmental institution to inform the public about "science and policy issues affecting international security".

See Nuclear weapon and Institute for Science and International Security

Intercontinental ballistic missile

An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a range greater than, primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads).

See Nuclear weapon and Intercontinental ballistic missile

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union (and its successor state, the Russian Federation).

See Nuclear weapon and Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

International Atomic Energy Agency

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and International Atomic Energy Agency

International Committee of the Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate.

See Nuclear weapon and International Committee of the Red Cross

International Court of Justice

The International Court of Justice (ICJ; Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.

See Nuclear weapon and International Court of Justice

International law

International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

See Nuclear weapon and International law

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) is a non-partisan federation of national medical groups in 63 countries, representing doctors, medical students, other health workers, and concerned people who share the goal of creating a more peaceful and secure world free from the threat of nuclear annihilation.

See Nuclear weapon and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

International relations

International relations (IR) are the interactions among sovereign states.

See Nuclear weapon and International relations

Interventionism (politics)

Interventionism, in international politics, is the interference of a state or group of states into the domestic affairs of another state for the purposes of coercing that state to do something or refrain from doing something.

See Nuclear weapon and Interventionism (politics)

Iodine-131

Iodine-131 (131I, I-131) is an important radioisotope of iodine discovered by Glenn Seaborg and John Livingood in 1938 at the University of California, Berkeley.

See Nuclear weapon and Iodine-131

Ionizing radiation

Ionizing radiation (US, ionising radiation in the UK), including nuclear radiation, consists of subatomic particles or electromagnetic waves that have sufficient energy to ionize atoms or molecules by detaching electrons from them.

See Nuclear weapon and Ionizing radiation

Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

See Nuclear weapon and Iraq

Iraq War

The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

See Nuclear weapon and Iraq War

Isotope

Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element.

See Nuclear weapon and Isotope

Isotopes of hafnium

Natural hafnium (72Hf) consists of five observationally stable isotopes (176Hf, 177Hf, 178Hf, 179Hf, and 180Hf) and one very long-lived radioisotope, 174Hf, with a half-life of years.

See Nuclear weapon and Isotopes of hafnium

Isotopes of neptunium

Neptunium (93Np) is usually considered an artificial element, although trace quantities are found in nature, so a standard atomic weight cannot be given.

See Nuclear weapon and Isotopes of neptunium

Israel and weapons of mass destruction

Israel is believed to possess weapons of mass destruction, and to be one of four nuclear-armed countries not recognized as a Nuclear Weapons State by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

See Nuclear weapon and Israel and weapons of mass destruction

Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

See Nuclear weapon and Italy

Ivy Mike

Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first full-scale test of a thermonuclear device, in which part of the explosive yield comes from nuclear fusion.

See Nuclear weapon and Ivy Mike

Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

The, usually abbreviated Gensuikyō in Japanese, is a Japanese NGO founded in 1955 that seeks a worldwide ban on nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

John Mearsheimer

John Joseph Mearsheimer (born December 14, 1947) is an American political scientist and international relations scholar.

See Nuclear weapon and John Mearsheimer

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.

See Nuclear weapon and Kazakhstan

Kenneth Waltz

Kenneth Neal Waltz (June 8, 1924 – May 12, 2013) was an American political scientist who was a member of the faculty at both the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars in the field of international relations.

See Nuclear weapon and Kenneth Waltz

Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan (8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006.

See Nuclear weapon and Kofi Annan

Land mine

A land mine, or landmine, is an explosive weapon concealed under or camouflaged on the ground, and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it.

See Nuclear weapon and Land mine

Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

See Nuclear weapon and Latin America

Laura Grego

Laura Grego is an American physicist specializing in nuclear safety and security and space policy.

See Nuclear weapon and Laura Grego

Lawrence Krauss

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who taught at Arizona State University (ASU), Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University.

See Nuclear weapon and Lawrence Krauss

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Livermore, California, United States.

See Nuclear weapon and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

LIM-49 Spartan

The LIM-49 Spartan was a United States Army anti-ballistic missile, designed to intercept attacking nuclear warheads from intercontinental ballistic missiles at long range and while still outside the atmosphere.

See Nuclear weapon and LIM-49 Spartan

Linus Pauling

Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator.

See Nuclear weapon and Linus Pauling

List of global issues

A global issue is a matter of public concern worldwide.

See Nuclear weapon and List of global issues

List of nuclear weapons

This is a list of nuclear weapons listed according to country of origin, and then by type within the states. Nuclear weapon and list of nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and List of nuclear weapons

List of states with nuclear weapons

Eight sovereign states have publicly announced successful detonation of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapon and List of states with nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and List of states with nuclear weapons

Lithium hydride

Lithium hydride is an inorganic compound with the formula LiH.

See Nuclear weapon and Lithium hydride

Little Boy

Little Boy was the name of the type of atomic bomb used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. Nuclear weapon and Little Boy are weapons and ammunition introduced in 1945.

See Nuclear weapon and Little Boy

London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

See Nuclear weapon and London

London Review of Books

The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British literary magazine published bimonthly (twice a month) that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews.

See Nuclear weapon and London Review of Books

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the American southwest.

See Nuclear weapon and Los Alamos National Laboratory

Louis Slotin

Louis Alexander Slotin (1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project.

See Nuclear weapon and Louis Slotin

Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Manhattan Project

Mark 17 nuclear bomb

The Mark 17 and Mark 24 were the first mass-produced hydrogen bombs deployed by the United States.

See Nuclear weapon and Mark 17 nuclear bomb

Mark 39 nuclear bomb

The Mark 39 nuclear bomb and W39 nuclear warhead were versions of an American thermonuclear weapon, which were in service from 1957 to 1966.

See Nuclear weapon and Mark 39 nuclear bomb

Mark 4 nuclear bomb

The Mark 4 nuclear bomb was an American implosion-type nuclear bomb based on the earlier Mark 3 Fat Man design, used in the Trinity test and the bombing of Nagasaki.

See Nuclear weapon and Mark 4 nuclear bomb

Mark Diesendorf

Mark Diesendorf is an Australian academic and environmentalist, known for his work in sustainable development and renewable energy.

See Nuclear weapon and Mark Diesendorf

Matter

In classical physics and general chemistry, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume.

See Nuclear weapon and Matter

Median lethal dose

In toxicology, the median lethal dose, LD50 (abbreviation for "lethal dose, 50%"), LC50 (lethal concentration, 50%) or LCt50 is a toxic unit that measures the lethal dose of a given substance.

See Nuclear weapon and Median lethal dose

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

See Nuclear weapon and Mediterranean Sea

MGM-52 Lance

The MGM-52 Lance was a mobile field artillery tactical surface-to-surface missile (tactical ballistic missile) system used to provide both nuclear and conventional fire support to the United States Army.

See Nuclear weapon and MGM-52 Lance

Michael Klare

Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts, USA), defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency (Metropolitan).

See Nuclear weapon and Michael Klare

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.

See Nuclear weapon and Mikhail Gorbachev

Military personnel

Military personnel or military service members are members of the state's armed forces.

See Nuclear weapon and Military personnel

Misnomer

A misnomer is a name that is incorrectly or unsuitably applied.

See Nuclear weapon and Misnomer

Missile

A missile is an airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight aided usually by a propellant, jet engine or rocket motor.

See Nuclear weapon and Missile

Missile defense

Missile defense is a system, weapon, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception, and also the destruction of attacking missiles.

See Nuclear weapon and Missile defense

Missile launch facility

A missile launch facility, also known as an underground missile silo, launch facility (LF), or nuclear silo, is a vertical cylindrical structure constructed underground, for the storage and launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs), medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs).

See Nuclear weapon and Missile launch facility

Mordechai Vanunu

Mordechai Vanunu (מרדכי ואנונו; born 14 October 1954), also known as John Crossman, is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986.

See Nuclear weapon and Mordechai Vanunu

Mortar (weapon)

A mortar today is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, muzzle-loaded cannon, consisting of a smooth-bore (although some models use a rifled barrel) metal tube fixed to a base plate (to spread out the recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount and a sight.

See Nuclear weapon and Mortar (weapon)

Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle

A multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) is an exoatmospheric ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit a different target.

See Nuclear weapon and Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle

Mutual assured destruction

Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. Nuclear weapon and Mutual assured destruction are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Mutual assured destruction

Nagasaki

, officially known as Nagasaki City (label), is the capital and the largest city of the Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

See Nuclear weapon and Nagasaki

National Cancer Institute

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

See Nuclear weapon and National Cancer Institute

National Command Authority (United States)

The National Command Authority (NCA) is a term that was formerly used by the Department of Defense of the United States to refer to the ultimate source of lawful military orders.

See Nuclear weapon and National Command Authority (United States)

Nature Food

Nature Food is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Nature Portfolio.

See Nuclear weapon and Nature Food

Neorealism (international relations)

Neorealism or structural realism is a theory of international relations that emphasizes the role of power politics in international relations, sees competition and conflict as enduring features and sees limited potential for cooperation.

See Nuclear weapon and Neorealism (international relations)

Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

See Nuclear weapon and Netherlands

Neutron

| magnetic_moment.

See Nuclear weapon and Neutron

Neutron bomb

A neutron bomb, officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron radiation in the immediate vicinity of the blast while minimizing the physical power of the blast itself. Nuclear weapon and neutron bomb are American inventions and nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Neutron bomb

Neutron radiation

Neutron radiation is a form of ionizing radiation that presents as free neutrons.

See Nuclear weapon and Neutron radiation

Nevada Test Site

The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of Nye County, Nevada, about northwest of the city of Las Vegas.

See Nuclear weapon and Nevada Test Site

New START

New START (Russian abbrev.: СНВ-III, SNV-III from сокращение стратегическихнаступательныхвооружений "reduction of strategic offensive arms") is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation with the formal name of Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.

See Nuclear weapon and New START

Niger uranium forgeries

The Niger uranium forgeries were forged documents initially released in 2001 by SISMI (the former military intelligence agency of Italy), which seem to depict an attempt made by Saddam Hussein in Iraq to purchase yellowcake uranium powder from Niger during the Iraq disarmament crisis.

See Nuclear weapon and Niger uranium forgeries

Nike Hercules

The Nike Hercules, initially designated SAM-A-25 and later MIM-14, was a surface-to-air missile (SAM) used by U.S. and NATO armed forces for medium- and high-altitude long-range air defense. It was normally armed with the W31 nuclear warhead, but could also be fitted with a conventional warhead for export use.

See Nuclear weapon and Nike Hercules

Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

See Nuclear weapon and Nobel Peace Prize

North Korea

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.

See Nuclear weapon and North Korea

North Korea and weapons of mass destruction

North Korea has a military nuclear weapons program and, as of 2024, is estimated to have an arsenal of approximately 50 nuclear weapons and sufficient production of fissile material for six to seven nuclear weapons per year.

See Nuclear weapon and North Korea and weapons of mass destruction

Nth Country Experiment

The Nth Country Experiment was an experiment conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory starting in May 1964 that sought to assess the risk of nuclear proliferation.

See Nuclear weapon and Nth Country Experiment

Nuclear arms race

The nuclear arms race was an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. Nuclear weapon and nuclear arms race are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear arms race

Nuclear artillery

Nuclear artillery is a subset of limited-yield tactical nuclear weapons, in particular those weapons that are launched from the ground at battlefield targets. Nuclear weapon and nuclear artillery are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear artillery

Nuclear blackout

Nuclear blackout, also known as fireball blackout or radar blackout, is an effect caused by explosions of nuclear weapons that disturbs radio communications and causes radar systems to be blacked out or heavily refracted so they can no longer be used for accurate tracking and guidance. Nuclear weapon and nuclear blackout are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear blackout

Nuclear bunker buster

A nuclear bunker buster, also known as an earth-penetrating weapon (EPW), is the nuclear equivalent of the conventional bunker buster. Nuclear weapon and nuclear bunker buster are nuclear bombs.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear bunker buster

Nuclear chain reaction

In nuclear physics, a nuclear chain reaction occurs when one single nuclear reaction causes an average of one or more subsequent nuclear reactions, thus leading to the possibility of a self-propagating series or "positive feedback loop" of these reactions.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear chain reaction

Nuclear criticality safety

Nuclear criticality safety is a field of nuclear engineering dedicated to the prevention of nuclear and radiation accidents resulting from an inadvertent, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear criticality safety

Nuclear depth bomb

A nuclear depth bomb is the nuclear equivalent of a conventional depth charge, and can be used in anti-submarine warfare for attacking submerged submarines. Nuclear weapon and nuclear depth bomb are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear depth bomb

Nuclear disarmament

Nuclear disarmament is the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapon and nuclear disarmament are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear disarmament

Nuclear electromagnetic pulse

A nuclear electromagnetic pulse (nuclear EMP or NEMP) is a burst of electromagnetic radiation created by a nuclear explosion. Nuclear weapon and nuclear electromagnetic pulse are bombs and nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear electromagnetic pulse

Nuclear explosion

A nuclear explosion is an explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from a high-speed nuclear reaction.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear explosion

Nuclear fallout

Nuclear fallout is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and the shock wave has passed. Nuclear weapon and nuclear fallout are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear fallout

Nuclear fission

Nuclear fission is a reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear fission

Nuclear fission product

Nuclear fission products are the atomic fragments left after a large atomic nucleus undergoes nuclear fission.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear fission product

Nuclear forensics

Nuclear forensics is the investigation of nuclear materials to find evidence for the source, the trafficking, and the enrichment of the material.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear forensics

Nuclear fratricide

In relation to nuclear warfare, nuclear fratricide denotes the inadvertent destruction of nuclear warheads or their delivery systems by detonations from other warheads in the same attack. Nuclear weapon and nuclear fratricide are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear fratricide

Nuclear fusion

Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei, usually deuterium and tritium (hydrogen isotopes), combine to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons).

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear fusion

Nuclear isomer

A nuclear isomer is a metastable state of an atomic nucleus, in which one or more nucleons (protons or neutrons) occupy excited state (higher energy) levels.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear isomer

Nuclear proliferation

Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT. Nuclear weapon and nuclear proliferation are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear proliferation

Nuclear pumped laser

A nuclear pumped laser is laser pumped with the energy of fission fragments.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear pumped laser

Nuclear reaction

In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two nuclei, or a nucleus and an external subatomic particle, collide to produce one or more new nuclides.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear reaction

Nuclear risk during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, several senior Russian politicians, including president Vladimir Putin, former president and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, and foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, have made a number of statements widely seen as nuclear blackmail.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear risk during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Nuclear sharing

Nuclear sharing is a concept in NATO's policy of nuclear deterrence, which allows member countries without nuclear weapons of their own to participate in the planning for the use of nuclear weapons by NATO.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear sharing

Nuclear technology

Nuclear technology is technology that involves the nuclear reactions of atomic nuclei.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear technology

Nuclear terrorism

Nuclear terrorism refers to any person or persons detonating a nuclear weapon as an act of terrorism (i.e., illegal or immoral use of violence for a political or religious cause). Nuclear weapon and nuclear terrorism are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear terrorism

Nuclear torpedo

A nuclear torpedo is a torpedo armed with a nuclear warhead. Nuclear weapon and nuclear torpedo are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear torpedo

Nuclear warfare

Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry. Nuclear weapon and nuclear warfare are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear warfare

Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Nuclear weapon and nuclear weapon are American inventions, bombs, nuclear bombs, nuclear weapons and weapons and ammunition introduced in 1945.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear weapon

Nuclear weapon design

Nuclear weapon designs are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate. Nuclear weapon and nuclear weapon design are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear weapon design

Nuclear weapon yield

The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated, usually expressed as a TNT equivalent (the standardized equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene which, if detonated, would produce the same energy discharge), either in kilotonnes (kt—thousands of tonnes of TNT), in megatonnes (Mt—millions of tonnes of TNT), or sometimes in terajoules (TJ).

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear weapon yield

Nuclear weapons delivery

Nuclear weapons delivery is the technology and systems used to place a nuclear weapon at the position of detonation, on or near its target. Nuclear weapon and nuclear weapons delivery are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear weapons delivery

Nuclear weapons in popular culture

Since their public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons and their potential effects have been a recurring motif in popular culture, to the extent that the decades of the Cold War are often referred to as the "atomic age".

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear weapons in popular culture

Nuclear weapons of the United Kingdom

In 1952, the United Kingdom became the third country (after the United States and the Soviet Union) to develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear weapons of the United Kingdom

Nuclear weapons of the United States

The United States was the first country to manufacture nuclear weapons and is the only country to have used them in combat, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear weapons of the United States

Nuclear weapons testing

Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance, yield, and effects of nuclear weapons and have resulted until 2020 in up to 2.4 million people dying from its global fallout. Nuclear weapon and nuclear weapons testing are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear weapons testing

Nuclear winter

Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war. Nuclear weapon and nuclear winter are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear winter

Nuclear-weapon-free zone

A nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) is defined by the United Nations as an agreement that 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 by the General Assembly of the United Nations.

See Nuclear weapon and Nuclear-weapon-free zone

OPANAL

The OPANAL (which stands for el Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe) is an international organization which promotes a non-aggression pact and nuclear disarmament in much of the Americas.

See Nuclear weapon and OPANAL

Operation Opera

Operation Opera (מִבְצָע אוֹפֵּרָה.), also known as Operation Babylon, was a surprise airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor located southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.

See Nuclear weapon and Operation Opera

Operation Outside the Box

Operation Outside the Box (מבצע מחוץ לקופסה, Mivtza MiHutz LaKufsa), also known as Operation Orchard (מבצע בוסתן, Mivtza Bustan), was an Israeli airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor, Associated Press Latest Update: 04.28.11, 18:10 referred to as the Al Kibar site (also referred to in IAEA documents as Dair Alzour), in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria, which occurred just after midnight (local time) on 6 September 2007.

See Nuclear weapon and Operation Outside the Box

Pacific Proving Grounds

The Pacific Proving Grounds was the name given by the United States government to a number of sites in the Marshall Islands and a few other sites in the Pacific Ocean at which it conducted nuclear testing between 1946 and 1962.

See Nuclear weapon and Pacific Proving Grounds

Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction

Pakistan is one of nine states that possess nuclear weapons. Pakistan began developing nuclear weapons in January 1972 under Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who delegated the program to the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) Munir Ahmad Khan with a commitment to having the device ready by the end of 1976.

See Nuclear weapon and Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction

Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

The Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), formally known as the 1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground.

See Nuclear weapon and Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Particle

In the physical sciences, a particle (or corpuscule in older texts) is a small localized object which can be described by several physical or chemical properties, such as volume, density, or mass.

See Nuclear weapon and Particle

PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

See Nuclear weapon and PBS

Penguin Group

Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

See Nuclear weapon and Penguin Group

Pierre Marie Gallois

Pierre Marie Gallois (29 June 1911 – 24 August 2010) was a French Air Force brigadier general and geopolitician.

See Nuclear weapon and Pierre Marie Gallois

Plutonium

Plutonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pu and atomic number 94.

See Nuclear weapon and Plutonium

Plutonium-239

Plutonium-239 (239Pu or Pu-239) is an isotope of plutonium.

See Nuclear weapon and Plutonium-239

Policy of deliberate ambiguity

In the context of global politics, a policy of deliberate ambiguity (also known as a policy of strategic ambiguity or strategic uncertainty) is the practice by a government or non-state actor of being deliberately ambiguous with regard to all or certain aspects of its operational or positional policies.

See Nuclear weapon and Policy of deliberate ambiguity

Politics

Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.

See Nuclear weapon and Politics

Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

See Nuclear weapon and Prague

Project Excalibur

Project Excalibur was a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Cold Warera research program to develop an X-ray laser system as a ballistic missile defense (BMD) for the United States.

See Nuclear weapon and Project Excalibur

Project Plowshare

Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes.

See Nuclear weapon and Project Plowshare

Prompt criticality

In nuclear engineering, prompt criticality describes a nuclear fission event in which criticality (the threshold for an exponentially growing nuclear fission chain reaction) is achieved with prompt neutrons alone and does not rely on delayed neutrons.

See Nuclear weapon and Prompt criticality

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats.

See Nuclear weapon and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Pugwash, Nova Scotia

Pugwash is an incorporated village in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada, located on the Northumberland Strait at the mouth of the Pugwash River.

See Nuclear weapon and Pugwash, Nova Scotia

Pure fusion weapon

A pure fusion weapon is a hypothetical hydrogen bomb design that does not need a fission "primary" explosive to ignite the fusion of deuterium and tritium, two heavy isotopes of hydrogen used in fission-fusion thermonuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Pure fusion weapon

Radiation

In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or a material medium.

See Nuclear weapon and Radiation

Radiation Effects Research Foundation

The Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) is a joint U.S.-Japan research organization responsible for studying the medical effects of radiation and associated diseases in humans for the welfare of the survivors and all humankind.

See Nuclear weapon and Radiation Effects Research Foundation

Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

The United States Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) is a federal statute implemented in 1990, set to expire in July 2024, providing for the monetary compensation of people, including atomic veterans, who contracted cancer and a number of other specified diseases as a direct result of their exposure to atmospheric nuclear testing undertaken by the United States during the Cold War as residents, or their exposure to radon gas and other radioactive isotopes while undertaking uranium mining, milling or the transportation of ore.

See Nuclear weapon and Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.

See Nuclear weapon and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radioactive contamination

Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids, liquids, or gases (including the human body), where their presence is unintended or undesirable (from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) definition).

See Nuclear weapon and Radioactive contamination

Radioactive decay

Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation.

See Nuclear weapon and Radioactive decay

Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material.

See Nuclear weapon and Radioactive waste

Radiophobia

Radiophobia is an irrational or excessive fear of ionizing radiation, leading to overestimating the health risks of radiation compared to other risks.

See Nuclear weapon and Radiophobia

Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

See Nuclear weapon and Reuters

Richard Rhodes

Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American historian, journalist, and author of both fiction and non-fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Energy: A Human History (2018).

See Nuclear weapon and Richard Rhodes

Rinaldo Brutoco

Rinaldo S. Brutoco (born in Toronto, Canada on February 27, 1947) is an attorney and corporate executive.

See Nuclear weapon and Rinaldo Brutoco

Robert Gallucci

Robert L. Gallucci (born February 11, 1946) is an American academic and diplomat, who formerly worked as president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

See Nuclear weapon and Robert Gallucci

Russell–Einstein Manifesto

The Russell–Einstein Manifesto was issued in London on 9 July 1955 by Bertrand Russell in the midst of the Cold War.

See Nuclear weapon and Russell–Einstein Manifesto

Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

See Nuclear weapon and Russia

Russia and weapons of mass destruction

The Russian Federation is known to possess or have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Russia and weapons of mass destruction

Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

See Nuclear weapon and Russian invasion of Ukraine

Salted bomb

A salted bomb is a nuclear weapon designed to function as a radiological weapon by producing larger quantities of radioactive fallout than unsalted nuclear arms. Nuclear weapon and salted bomb are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Salted bomb

Sam Nunn

Samuel Augustus Nunn Jr. (born September 8, 1938) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Georgia (1972–1997) as a member of the Democratic Party.

See Nuclear weapon and Sam Nunn

Samuel T. Cohen

Samuel Theodore Cohen (January 25, 1921 – November 28, 2010) was an American physicist who is generally credited as the father of the neutron bomb.

See Nuclear weapon and Samuel T. Cohen

Scientific American

Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.

See Nuclear weapon and Scientific American

Sea ice

Sea ice arises as seawater freezes.

See Nuclear weapon and Sea ice

Secretary-General of the United Nations

The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.

See Nuclear weapon and Secretary-General of the United Nations

September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

See Nuclear weapon and September 11 attacks

Shelter-in-place

Shelter-in-place (SIP; also known as a shelter-in-place warning, SAME code SPW) is the act of seeking safety within the building one already occupies, rather than evacuating the area or seeking a community emergency shelter.

See Nuclear weapon and Shelter-in-place

Sievert

The sievert (symbol: SvPlease note there are two non-SI units that use the same Sv abbreviation: the sverdrup and svedberg.) is a unit in the International System of Units (SI) intended to represent the stochastic health risk of ionizing radiation, which is defined as the probability of causing radiation-induced cancer and genetic damage.

See Nuclear weapon and Sievert

Smyth Report

The Smyth Report (officially Atomic Energy for Military Purposes) is the common name of an administrative history written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth about the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort to develop atomic bombs during World War II.

See Nuclear weapon and Smyth Report

Societal collapse

Societal collapse (also known as civilizational collapse or systems collapse) is the fall of a complex human society characterized by the loss of cultural identity and of social complexity as an adaptive system, the downfall of government, and the rise of violence.

See Nuclear weapon and Societal collapse

South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

See Nuclear weapon and South Africa

South Africa and weapons of mass destruction

From the 1960s to the 1990s, South Africa pursued research into weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons under the apartheid government.

See Nuclear weapon and South Africa and weapons of mass destruction

South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

See Nuclear weapon and South Korea

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

See Nuclear weapon and Soviet Union

Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

See Nuclear weapon and Spain

Special Atomic Demolition Munition

The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), also known as the XM129 and XM159 Atomic Demolition Charges, and the B54 bomb was a nuclear man-portable atomic demolition munition (ADM) system fielded by the US military from the 1960s to 1980s but never used in combat.

See Nuclear weapon and Special Atomic Demolition Munition

Spencer R. Weart

Spencer R. Weart (born 1942) is the former director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) from 1971 until his retirement in 2009.

See Nuclear weapon and Spencer R. Weart

Sprint (missile)

The Sprint was a two-stage, solid-fuel anti-ballistic missile (ABM), armed with a W66 enhanced-radiation thermonuclear warhead used by the United States Army during 1975–76.

See Nuclear weapon and Sprint (missile)

Stability–instability paradox

The stability–instability paradox is an international relations theory regarding the effect of nuclear weapons and mutually assured destruction.

See Nuclear weapon and Stability–instability paradox

Starfish Prime

Starfish Prime was a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States, a joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Defense Atomic Support Agency.

See Nuclear weapon and Starfish Prime

START I

START I (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the reduction and the limitation of strategic offensive arms.

See Nuclear weapon and START I

START II

START II (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States and Russia on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.

See Nuclear weapon and START II

Starvation

Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life.

See Nuclear weapon and Starvation

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union.

See Nuclear weapon and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Strategic bomber

A strategic bomber is a medium- to long-range penetration bomber aircraft designed to drop large amounts of air-to-ground weaponry onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating the enemy's capacity to wage war.

See Nuclear weapon and Strategic bomber

Strategic Defense Initiative

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic nuclear missiles.

See Nuclear weapon and Strategic Defense Initiative

Strategic nuclear weapon

A strategic nuclear weapon (SNW) refers to a nuclear weapon that is designed to be used on targets often in settled territory far from the battlefield as part of a strategic plan, such as military bases, military command centers, arms industries, transportation, economic, and energy infrastructure, and countervalue targets such areas such as cities and towns. Nuclear weapon and strategic nuclear weapon are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Strategic nuclear weapon

Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty

The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT), also known as the Treaty of Moscow, was a strategic arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia that was in force from June 2003 until February 2011 when it was superseded by the New START treaty. Nuclear weapon and strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty

Stratosphere

The stratosphere is the second-lowest layer of the atmosphere of Earth, located above the troposphere and below the mesosphere.

See Nuclear weapon and Stratosphere

Submarine

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

See Nuclear weapon and Submarine

Submarine-launched ballistic missile

A submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is a ballistic missile capable of being launched from submarines.

See Nuclear weapon and Submarine-launched ballistic missile

Suitcase nuclear device

A suitcase nuclear device (also suitcase nuke, suitcase bomb, backpack nuke, snuke, mini-nuke, and pocket nuke) is a tactical nuclear weapon that is portable enough that it could use a suitcase as its delivery method.

See Nuclear weapon and Suitcase nuclear device

Surrender of Japan

The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.

See Nuclear weapon and Surrender of Japan

Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

See Nuclear weapon and Syria

Tactical nuclear weapon

A tactical nuclear weapon (TNW) or non-strategic nuclear weapon (NSNW) is a nuclear weapon that is designed to be used on a battlefield in military situations, mostly with friendly forces in proximity and perhaps even on contested friendly territory.

See Nuclear weapon and Tactical nuclear weapon

Technology

Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.

See Nuclear weapon and Technology

Terrorism

Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.

See Nuclear weapon and Terrorism

The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

See Nuclear weapon and The Guardian

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a history book written by the American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1987.

See Nuclear weapon and The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Nation

The Nation is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

See Nuclear weapon and The Nation

The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

See Nuclear weapon and The New York Review of Books

The Pentagon

The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II.

See Nuclear weapon and The Pentagon

The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

See Nuclear weapon and The Washington Post

Thermonuclear weapon

A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design.

See Nuclear weapon and Thermonuclear weapon

Thomas Powers

Thomas Powers (born December 12, 1940, in New York City) is an American author and intelligence expert.

See Nuclear weapon and Thomas Powers

Three Non-Nuclear Principles

Japan's are a parliamentary resolution (never adopted into law) that have guided Japanese nuclear policy since their inception in the late 1960s, and reflect general public sentiment and national policy since the end of World War II.

See Nuclear weapon and Three Non-Nuclear Principles

Thyroid cancer

Thyroid cancer is cancer that develops from the tissues of the thyroid gland.

See Nuclear weapon and Thyroid cancer

Titan Missile Museum

The Titan Missile Museum, also known as Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 or as Titan II ICBM Site 571-7, is a former ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) site located about south of Tucson, Arizona in the United States.

See Nuclear weapon and Titan Missile Museum

TNT

Trinitrotoluene, more commonly known as TNT (and more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene), and by its preferred IUPAC name 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3.

See Nuclear weapon and TNT

TNT equivalent

TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.

See Nuclear weapon and TNT equivalent

Total war

Total war is a type of warfare that includes any and all (including civilian-associated) resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilises all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare over non-combatant needs.

See Nuclear weapon and Total war

Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, established in the early 19th century around the area formerly known as Charing Cross.

See Nuclear weapon and Trafalgar Square

Transporter erector launcher

A transporter erector launcher (TEL) is a missile vehicle with an integrated tractor unit that can transport, elevate to a firing position and launch one or more rockets or missiles.

See Nuclear weapon and Transporter erector launcher

Treaty of Tlatelolco

The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (commonly known as The Tlatelolco Treaty) is an international treaty that establishes the denuclearization of Latin America and the Caribbean.

See Nuclear weapon and Treaty of Tlatelolco

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty intended to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament.

See Nuclear weapon and Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination.

See Nuclear weapon and Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Trinity (nuclear test)

Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. MWT (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project.

See Nuclear weapon and Trinity (nuclear test)

Tritium

Tritium or hydrogen-3 (symbol T or H) is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen with half-life ~12.3 years.

See Nuclear weapon and Tritium

Tropopause

The tropopause is the atmospheric boundary that demarcates the troposphere from the stratosphere, which are the lowest two of the five layers of the atmosphere of Earth.

See Nuclear weapon and Tropopause

Tsar Bomba

The Tsar Bomba (code name: Ivan or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested.

See Nuclear weapon and Tsar Bomba

Tuna

A tuna (tunas or tuna) is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae (mackerel) family.

See Nuclear weapon and Tuna

Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

See Nuclear weapon and Turkey

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

See Nuclear weapon and Ukraine

Underground nuclear weapons testing

Underground nuclear testing is the test detonation of nuclear weapons that is performed underground.

See Nuclear weapon and Underground nuclear weapons testing

Unguided bomb

An unguided bomb, also known as a free-fall bomb, gravity bomb, dumb bomb, or iron bomb, is an aircraft-dropped bomb (conventional or nuclear) that does not contain a guidance system and hence simply follows a ballistic trajectory.

See Nuclear weapon and Unguided bomb

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

See Nuclear weapon and United Kingdom

United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction

The United Kingdom possesses, or has possessed, a variety of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction

United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

See Nuclear weapon and United Nations

United Nations General Assembly

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.

See Nuclear weapon and United Nations General Assembly

United Nations Secretariat

The United Nations Secretariat is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), The secretariat is the UN's executive arm.

See Nuclear weapon and United Nations Secretariat

United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

See Nuclear weapon and United States

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

See Nuclear weapon and United States Air Force

United States and weapons of mass destruction

The United States is known to have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and United States and weapons of mass destruction

United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941–1947).

See Nuclear weapon and United States Army Air Forces

United States Atomic Energy Commission

The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by the U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.

See Nuclear weapon and United States Atomic Energy Commission

United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.

See Nuclear weapon and United States Department of Energy

United States military nuclear incident terminology

The United States Armed Forces uses a number of terms to define the magnitude and extent of nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents in order to reduce the time taken to report the type of incident, thus streamlining the radio communications in the wake of the event.

See Nuclear weapon and United States military nuclear incident terminology

United States Secretary of Energy

The United States secretary of energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession.

See Nuclear weapon and United States Secretary of Energy

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

See Nuclear weapon and United States Senate

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings.

See Nuclear weapon and Universal Declaration of Human Rights

University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico (UNM; Universidad de Nuevo México) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

See Nuclear weapon and University of New Mexico

Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.

See Nuclear weapon and Uranium

Uranium-233

Uranium-233 (233U or U-233) is a fissile isotope of uranium that is bred from thorium-232 as part of the thorium fuel cycle.

See Nuclear weapon and Uranium-233

Uranium-235

Uranium-235 (235U or U-235) is an isotope of uranium making up about 0.72% of natural uranium.

See Nuclear weapon and Uranium-235

Variable yield

Variable yield, or dial-a-yield, is an option available on most modern nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapon and Variable yield are nuclear weapons.

See Nuclear weapon and Variable yield

Vice (magazine)

Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.

See Nuclear weapon and Vice (magazine)

W54

The W54 (also known as the Mark 54 or B54) was a tactical nuclear warhead developed by the United States in the late 1950s.

See Nuclear weapon and W54

W79 Artillery-Fired Atomic Projectile

The W79 Artillery-Fired Atomic Projectile (AFAP), also known as XM753 (Atomic RA), was an American nuclear artillery shell, capable of being fired from any NATO howitzer e.g. the M115 and M110 howitzer.

See Nuclear weapon and W79 Artillery-Fired Atomic Projectile

W82

The W82 (also known as the XM785 shell) was a low-yield tactical nuclear warhead developed by the United States and designed to be used in a 155 mm artillery shell.

See Nuclear weapon and W82

War

War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.

See Nuclear weapon and War

Weapon of mass destruction

A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people or cause great damage to artificial structures (e.g., buildings), natural structures (e.g., mountains), or the biosphere.

See Nuclear weapon and Weapon of mass destruction

William J. Perry

William James Perry (born October 11, 1927) is an American mathematician, engineer, businessman, and civil servant who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton.

See Nuclear weapon and William J. Perry

World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

See Nuclear weapon and World War II

X-ray

X-rays (or rarely, X-radiation) are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.

See Nuclear weapon and X-ray

1950 British Columbia B-36 crash

Sometime after midnight on 14 February 1950, a Convair B-36B, United States Air Force Serial Number 44-92075 assigned to the US 7th Bombardment Wing, Heavy at Carswell Air Force Base in Texas, crashed in northwestern British Columbia on Mount Kologet after jettisoning a Mark 4 nuclear bomb.

See Nuclear weapon and 1950 British Columbia B-36 crash

1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash

The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash was an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, on 24 January 1961.

See Nuclear weapon and 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash

1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident

The 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash was a Broken Arrow incident in which a United States Navy Douglas A-4E Skyhawk attack aircraft carrying a nuclear weapon fell into the sea off Japan from the aircraft carrier.

See Nuclear weapon and 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident

1966 Palomares B-52 crash

The 1966 Palomares B-52 crash, also called the Palomares incident, occurred on 17 January 1966, when a B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refueling at over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain.

See Nuclear weapon and 1966 Palomares B-52 crash

1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash

On 21 January 1968, an aircraft accident, sometimes known as the Thule affair or Thule accident (Thuleulykken), involving a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber occurred near Thule Air Base in the Danish territory of Greenland.

See Nuclear weapon and 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash

1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion

The Damascus Titan missile explosion (also called the Damascus accident) was a 1980 U.S. nuclear weapons incident involving a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).

See Nuclear weapon and 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion

See also

Bombs

• Aerial bombs
• Bicycle bomb
• Bomb
• Bomb disposal
• Bomb-making instructions on the Internet
• Bombing range
• Bombsite
• Camouflages for sabotage equipment used by the German sabotage services in World War II
• Carcass (projectile)
• Cherry bomb
• Coal torpedo
• Detonator
• Dirty bomb
• Explosively formed penetrator
• Fragmentation (weaponry)
• Glide bomb
• Graphite bomb
• Grenades
• Ground burst
• Improvised explosive device
• Improvised explosive devices
• Incendiary balloon
• Incendiary kite
• Letter bomb
• Lewes bomb
• List of bombs
• M-80 (explosive)
• Missiles
• Molotov cocktail
• Nail bomb
• Next Generation Multiple Warhead System
• Nuclear electromagnetic pulse
• Nuclear weapon
• Operation Fishbowl
• PTAB (bomb)
• Pencil bomb attacks
• Petard
• Photoflash bomb
• Pressure cooker bomb
• RDS-5
• Seirina Guided Bomb
• Stinkpot (weapon)
• TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook
• Tactical nuclear weapons
• Thunder crash bomb
• Time bomb
• Torpedo (petroleum)
• Unexploded ordnance

Nuclear bombs

• Blue Stone (neutron initiator)
• Nuclear bunker buster
• Nuclear weapon

Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1945

• 5-inch/54-caliber Mark 16 gun
• 7.5 cm FK 7M85
• ASM-N-2 Bat
• Blohm & Voss BV 246
• Carl Gustaf m/45
• Disney bomb
• Fat Man
• Fliegerfaust
• JB-3 Tiamat
• KP m/44 submachine gun
• Little Boy
• M16 (rocket)
• M20 recoilless rifle
• MG 45
• MP 3008
• Nuclear weapon
• Panzerblitz (missile)
• SKS
• StG 45(M)
• Sugiura pistol
• Third Shot
• Type 5 15 cm AA gun
• VB-3 Razon
• Volkssturmgewehr

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon

Also known as A bomb, A-Bomb, A-Bombs, Abomb, Atom Bomb, Atom bombe, Atom bombs, Atombomb, Atomic Bomb, Atomic bombing, Atomic bombs, Atomic warhead, Atomic weapon, Atomic weapons, Effects of a nuclear weapon, First nuclear fission bomb, Fission bomb, Fission weapon, Fusion Bomb, Fusion weapon, N Bomb, N-Bomb, NBomb, Neuclear bomb, Nuclear Arms, Nuclear Bomb, Nuclear Missle, Nuclear Weaponry, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear arms control, Nuclear bombing, Nuclear bombs, Nuclear device, Nuclear devices, Nuclear fission weapon, Nuclear ordnance, Nuclear power weapon, Nuclear war weapon, Nuclear warhead, Nuclear warheads, Nuclear weapon delivery system maintenance, Nuclear weapon maintenance, Nuclear weapons delivery system maintenance, Nuclear weapons delivery systems maintenance, Nuclear weapons maintenance, Nuclear-tipped missile, Nuclear-warhead, Nuclear-weapon, Nucular bombs, Nucular weapon, Nuke, Nuke (comics), Nuked, Nukee, Nukes, Nuking, Nukuler bomb, Plutonium bomb, Super Bomb, Super nuke, Superbomb, The Atomic Bomb, Unclear weapon.

, Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone, Charles de Gaulle, Charter of the United Nations, Chemical weapon, China, China and weapons of mass destruction, Chuck Hansen, CIM-10 Bomarc, Civil defense, Civilian, CNN, Cobalt, Cobalt bomb, Cold War, Command and Control (book), Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Conventional weapon, Cosmic bomb (phrase), Critical mass, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cyberweapon, Cyrus S. Eaton, Daigo Fukuryū Maru, Daniel Ellsberg, Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Defense News, Demon core, Depleted uranium, Depth charge, Deterrence theory, Deuterium, Dirty bomb, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations, Doomsday Clock, Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, Easter, Economic development, Ejection seat, Electric charge, Empire of Japan, Enriched uranium, Environmental remediation, Eric Schlosser, Ernest Moniz, Ethics, Explosive device, Explosive lens, Exponential growth, Fat Man, Fear, Fighter-bomber, Firearm, Firestorm, First strike (nuclear strategy), Fissile material, Fission barrier, Force de dissuasion, Foreign Affairs, France, France and weapons of mass destruction, Fred Kaplan (journalist), Game theory, Gamma ray, Geneva Conventions, George Shultz, Germany, Global catastrophic risk, Global North and Global South, Global Zero (campaign), Gold, Goldsboro, North Carolina, Graham Allison, Greenland, Habitat destruction, Hafnium controversy, Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, Half-life, Hanford Site, Hans Bethe, Harry Daghlian, Head of government, Head of state, Henry DeWolf Smyth, Henry Kissinger, Hiroshima, Human extinction, Hydrogen, Hypergolic propellant, Hypersonic weapon, India, India and weapons of mass destruction, India–Pakistan relations, Institute for Science and International Security, Intercontinental ballistic missile, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Committee of the Red Cross, International Court of Justice, International law, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, International relations, Interventionism (politics), Iodine-131, Ionizing radiation, Iraq, Iraq War, Isotope, Isotopes of hafnium, Isotopes of neptunium, Israel and weapons of mass destruction, Italy, Ivy Mike, Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, John Mearsheimer, Kazakhstan, Kenneth Waltz, Kofi Annan, Land mine, Latin America, Laura Grego, Lawrence Krauss, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LIM-49 Spartan, Linus Pauling, List of global issues, List of nuclear weapons, List of states with nuclear weapons, Lithium hydride, Little Boy, London, London Review of Books, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Louis Slotin, Manhattan Project, Mark 17 nuclear bomb, Mark 39 nuclear bomb, Mark 4 nuclear bomb, Mark Diesendorf, Matter, Median lethal dose, Mediterranean Sea, MGM-52 Lance, Michael Klare, Mikhail Gorbachev, Military personnel, Misnomer, Missile, Missile defense, Missile launch facility, Mordechai Vanunu, Mortar (weapon), Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle, Mutual assured destruction, Nagasaki, National Cancer Institute, National Command Authority (United States), Nature Food, Neorealism (international relations), Netherlands, Neutron, Neutron bomb, Neutron radiation, Nevada Test Site, New START, Niger uranium forgeries, Nike Hercules, Nobel Peace Prize, North Korea, North Korea and weapons of mass destruction, Nth Country Experiment, Nuclear arms race, Nuclear artillery, Nuclear blackout, Nuclear bunker buster, Nuclear chain reaction, Nuclear criticality safety, Nuclear depth bomb, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear electromagnetic pulse, Nuclear explosion, Nuclear fallout, Nuclear fission, Nuclear fission product, Nuclear forensics, Nuclear fratricide, Nuclear fusion, Nuclear isomer, Nuclear proliferation, Nuclear pumped laser, Nuclear reaction, Nuclear risk during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Nuclear sharing, Nuclear technology, Nuclear terrorism, Nuclear torpedo, Nuclear warfare, Nuclear weapon, Nuclear weapon design, Nuclear weapon yield, Nuclear weapons delivery, Nuclear weapons in popular culture, Nuclear weapons of the United Kingdom, Nuclear weapons of the United States, Nuclear weapons testing, Nuclear winter, Nuclear-weapon-free zone, OPANAL, Operation Opera, Operation Outside the Box, Pacific Proving Grounds, Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction, Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Particle, PBS, Penguin Group, Pierre Marie Gallois, Plutonium, Plutonium-239, Policy of deliberate ambiguity, Politics, Prague, Project Excalibur, Project Plowshare, Prompt criticality, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Pure fusion weapon, Radiation, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radioactive contamination, Radioactive decay, Radioactive waste, Radiophobia, Reuters, Richard Rhodes, Rinaldo Brutoco, Robert Gallucci, Russell–Einstein Manifesto, Russia, Russia and weapons of mass destruction, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Salted bomb, Sam Nunn, Samuel T. Cohen, Scientific American, Sea ice, Secretary-General of the United Nations, September 11 attacks, Shelter-in-place, Sievert, Smyth Report, Societal collapse, South Africa, South Africa and weapons of mass destruction, South Korea, Soviet Union, Spain, Special Atomic Demolition Munition, Spencer R. Weart, Sprint (missile), Stability–instability paradox, Starfish Prime, START I, START II, Starvation, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Strategic bomber, Strategic Defense Initiative, Strategic nuclear weapon, Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, Stratosphere, Submarine, Submarine-launched ballistic missile, Suitcase nuclear device, Surrender of Japan, Syria, Tactical nuclear weapon, Technology, Terrorism, The Guardian, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Pentagon, The Washington Post, Thermonuclear weapon, Thomas Powers, Three Non-Nuclear Principles, Thyroid cancer, Titan Missile Museum, TNT, TNT equivalent, Total war, Trafalgar Square, Transporter erector launcher, Treaty of Tlatelolco, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Trinity (nuclear test), Tritium, Tropopause, Tsar Bomba, Tuna, Turkey, Ukraine, Underground nuclear weapons testing, Unguided bomb, United Kingdom, United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Secretariat, United States, United States Air Force, United States and weapons of mass destruction, United States Army Air Forces, United States Atomic Energy Commission, United States Department of Energy, United States military nuclear incident terminology, United States Secretary of Energy, United States Senate, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, University of New Mexico, Uranium, Uranium-233, Uranium-235, Variable yield, Vice (magazine), W54, W79 Artillery-Fired Atomic Projectile, W82, War, Weapon of mass destruction, William J. Perry, World War II, X-ray, 1950 British Columbia B-36 crash, 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash, 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident, 1966 Palomares B-52 crash, 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash, 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion.

Unionpedia is a concept map or semantic network organized like an encyclopedia – dictionary. It gives a brief definition of each concept and its relationships.

This is a giant online mental map that serves as a basis for concept diagrams. It's free to use and each article or document can be downloaded. It's a tool, resource or reference for study, research, education, learning or teaching, that can be used by teachers, educators, pupils or students; for the academic world: for school, primary, secondary, high school, middle, technical degree, college, university, undergraduate, master's or doctoral degrees; for papers, reports, projects, ideas, documentation, surveys, summaries, or thesis. Here is the definition, explanation, description, or the meaning of each significant on which you need information, and a list of their associated concepts as a glossary. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Swedish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Catalan, Czech, Hebrew, Danish, Finnish, Indonesian, Norwegian, Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Greek, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Filipino, Latvian, Estonian and Slovenian. More languages soon.

The information is based on Wikipedia articles and other Wikimedia projects, and it's available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Unionpedia is not endorsed by or affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

Google Play, Android and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google Inc.

Privacy Policy