each other. The most destructive way of killing people known to man

would have to be the atomic bomb. The reason why the atomic bomb is so

destructive is that when it is detonated, it has more than one effect.

The effects of the atomic bomb are so great that Nikita Khrushchev

said that the survivors would envy the dead (International Physicians

for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1982). These devastating physical

effects come from the atomic bomb's blast, the atomic bomb's thermal

radiation, and the atomic bomb's nuclear radiation.

An atomic bomb is any weapon that gets its destructive power

from an atom. This power comes when the matter inside of the atoms is

transformed into energy. The process by which this is done is known

as fission. The only two atoms suitable for fissioning are the

uranium isotope U-235 and the plutonium isotope Pu-239 (Outlaw

Labs). Fission occurs when a neutron, a subatomic particle with no

electrical charge, strikes the nucleus of one of these isotopes and

causes it to split apart. When the nucleus is split, a large amount

of energy is produced, and more free neutrons are also released.

prevention of any form of Nuclear War."

detonated so high in the atmosphere; approximately five hundred and

identical to an electron moving at a high velocity (International

degree burns. Those that were at a distance of three and one

radiation was estimated to be thiry-five thousand people in Hiroshima,

energy to be released. If this process is repeated, a self-sustaining

the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1981).

square mere, while in Nagasaki the blast was measured to be about six

with definite proof were those of increased rates of cataracts,

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