Nuclear Weapons
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The nuclear age opened with the development of the atomic bomb
during World War II. Many people believed that weapons capable of mass
destruction would make war unthinkable in the future. They hoped that the
world would learn to live in peace. But a race to develop ever more
powerful weapons s ....
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.... was a bomb with great explosive force from the
sudden release of nuclear energy through the fission, or splitting, of
heavy atomic nuclei. The first atomic bomb was tested by the United States
near Alamogordo, New Mexico. In the final stages of World War II, the U.S.
dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and on Nagasaki three days later to force
Japan to surrender. The explosion produces great amounts of heat, a shock
wave, and intense neutron and gamma radiation. The region of the explosion
b ....
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