Ten interesting facts to know about nuclear weapons
Ten interesting facts to know about nuclear weapons
New Delhi: A nuclear weapon derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. These
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‘Little Boy', which was dropped on Hiroshima and killed 140,000 people had a yield of 13 kilotons. Today's bombs can have a yield of 50,000 kilotons, or 50 megatons.
