Ever since the dawn of time man has found new ways of killing 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

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

half kilometers from the hypocenter received second degree burns. Those that were at a

This chain reaction can be attained in two different ways.

first subcritical mass. The resulting combination causes the two subcritical masses to

As this blast wave moves, it creates static overpressure. This static overpressure then in

Beta particles are negatively charged particles, identical to an electron moving at a high

the hypocenter (Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War, 1981). This heat has two

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