How Nuclear Weapons Work

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All isotopes exist in two forms: stable and unstable. These unstable isotopes are considered "radioactive" because they have too many neutrons compared with their protons. Nature abhors this imbalance and resolves it in a number of ways. It can turn a neutron into a proton, releasing a few protons and neutrons as "alpha particles" (which are basically helium without the electrons.) Or shed a neutron.

If shed neutrons are captured by other nearby isotopes and made unstable, the result can become a "chain reaction" where more neutrons are released by nearby atoms than absorbed. Under the right conditions, this can power cities. Left uncontrolled, it can destroy them.

Note: the final segment of this video is President Truman's address to the United States after the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

This video covers:
Types of Radiation
How a nuclear weapon works
Weapons effects,
Tactical and strategic warheads
Employment and delivery
Electromagnetic pulse.

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References:

Types of radiation.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-...

How Fuel is made:
https://www.world-nuclear.org/nuclear...

How neutrons make things radioactive
http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/...

The Gun-type design.
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2011/1...

Where does the plutonium come from?

https://fas.org/blogs/fas/2013/09/whe....

Plutonium-240
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutoni...

The Devastating Effects of Nuclear Weapons
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/de...

https://www.arpansa.gov.au/understand...

Irradiated food
https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-se...

Why Gamma rays are dangerous:
https://letstalkscience.ca/educationa...

Why are there so many different ways to measure radiation exposure?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2....

REM Chart
https://www.atomicarchive.com/science...

Don’t use conditioner
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-s...

US Power Grid
https://www.epa.gov/green-power-marke...)

Diethylenetriamene pentaacetate (DTPA),
https://emergency.cdc.gov/radiation/p...

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The Day After ABC (1993)

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PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN TALKS ON ATOMIC BOMBS
Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
8/6/1945