Nuclear weapon
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- A nuclear weapon[a] 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. Both bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter.
The first test of a fission ("atomic") bomb released an amount of energy approximately equal to 20,000 tons of TNT (84 TJ). The first thermonuclear ("hydrogen") bomb test released energy approximately equal to 10 million tons of TNT (42 PJ). Nuclear bombs have had yields between 10 tons TNT (the W54) and 50 megatons for the Tsar Bomba (see TNT equivalent). A thermonuclear weapon weighing as little as 600 pounds (270 kg) can release energy equal to more than 1.2 megatonnes of TNT (5.0 PJ).
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Plakat/Politik "Aufruf an die Bevölkerung des Kreises Weißenfels",DDR, Weißenfels 1950
Kleines Plakat des...
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Monitus (Atomkrieg) (Gemälde von Otto Ochlich)
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Karl-Heinz Schoenfeld - Atommacht China
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Karl-Heinz Schoenfeld - Abrüstungsverhandlungen
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Helmut Jacek - NATO-Militärpolitik
O.T. "Natürlich muß sie...
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