= Nuclear weapon
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= Atomic bomb
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= Nuclear bomb
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= Nuke
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\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Plutonium_ring.jpg/505px-Plutonium_ring.jpg]
{title=A weapons-grade ring of electrorefined plutonium, typical of the rings refined at Los Alamos and sent to Rocky Flats for fabrication}
{description=The ring has a purity of 99.96%, weighs 5.3 kg, and is approx 11 cm in diameter. It is enough plutonium for one bomb core. Which city shall we blow up today?}
<Ciro Santilli> is mildly obsessed by nuclear reactions, because they are so <Ciro Santilli's self perceived creative personality>[quirky]. How can a little ball destroy a city? How can putting too much of it together produce criticality and kill people like in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core[Slotin accident] or the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWomuWd7-to[Tokaimura criticality accident]. It is <mind blowing> really.
<Uranium> vs <plutonium>: <uranium vs plutonium Quora answer by Ciro Santilli>{full}.
More fun nuclear stuff to watch:
* <Dr. Strangelove (1964)>
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)[]
* <The World Of Enrico Fermi by Harvard Project Physics (1970)>
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man_and_Little_Boy[Fat Man and Little Boy (1987)] shows a possibly reasonably realistic of the history of the development of the <Trinity (nuclear test)>
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E3sFfnAUQs]
{title=Tour of a nuclear misile silo from the 60's by Arizona Highways TV (2019)}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uIPQBOCJ64]
{title=The Ultimate Guide to Nuclear Weapons by hypohystericalhistory (2022)}
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Good overall summary. Some interesting points:
* https://youtu.be/8uIPQBOCJ64?t=2946 talks about the difference between <tactical and strategic nuclear weapons>
* https://youtu.be/8uIPQBOCJ64?t=3291 mentions <variable yield> devices, this is the main new thing <Ciro Santilli> learned from this video
* https://youtu.be/8uIPQBOCJ64?t=3416 discusses if a <strategic nuclear weapon> usage would inevitably lead to <tactical nuclear weapon> escalation. It then mentions one case in which a possibly comparable escalation didn't happen: the abstinence of using <chemical weapon> during <World War II>.
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