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Paper, particle accelerator, and write with me, my lady. The moment the nuclear bomb exploded over Japan marked the end of the era of old weapons and the beginning of the horror of super-destructive weapons. Man harnessed the latent energy in the atom and released it to use for destruction. What is a fission reaction? Why is the presence of materials such as uranium required? How can a small amount of these materials cause all this destruction? Are there more powerful weapons in the future? #Al-Daheh #Museum of the Future Sources: Articles and Related Links Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon by PD Smith / 1251610.doomsday_men http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq... • Demon Core - The True Story • Atomic Veterans Were Silenced for 50 ... http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/ https://world-nuclear.org/information... https://ee .stanford.edu/~hellman/sts1... Images' Copyrights: Wikimedia Commons (Uranium 235 - Plutonium ring - Uranium 238 - Plutonium Sphere - Little boy bomb - Fat man bomb - Mother of All Bombs - Castle Bravo Britannica (Leo Szilard - Enrico Fermi - Isidor Isaac Rabi - Thermonuclear bomb)