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Effects of Nuclear Weapons. The Energy from a Nuclear Weapon. One of the fundamental differences between a nuclear and a conventional explosion is that nuclear explosions can be many thousands (or millions) of times more powerful than the largest conventional…

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The results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted again with high doses of radiation.

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August 1945 will forever be remembered as one of the most dramatic months in the history of mankind, when nuclear weapons were used in warfare for the first and last time to date. Tragically, this powerful weapon was aimed at civilian targets: on August 6…

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A Russian nuclear energy agency released formerly classified footage of the Soviet Union’s 1961 Tsar Bomba test.

by Masami Nishimoto, Senior Staff Writer Valuable negatives of panoramic photographs from August 194

Visualization of nuclear detonations from 1945 to present. Atmospheric: red Underground: yellow Underwater: blue By Orbital Mechanics (http://orbitalmechanics.io) Code…

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
The Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (code name Ivan…