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
‘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.
