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the first full-scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history there was a nuclear explosion. And what an explosion! The bomb was not dropped from an ...

So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany ... end of the year the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might be possible. When slowed down and controlled ...

Many of the features of the reactor are designed to control the speed of the reaction and the temperature inside the shielding. An uncontrolled fission reaction is the basis of an atomic bomb.

Thermonuclear weapons are nuclear weapons whose design uses the heat generated by a fission bomb to compress a nuclear fusion stage. Also called a fusion bomb, hydrogen bomb or H-bomb, a ...

Nuclear fission power plants have the disadvantage of generating unstable nuclei ... Although hydrogen bombs do use fusion reactions, they require an additional fission bomb to detonate. Working ...

However, it's unlikely North Korea blew up a large pure-fission bomb. The sanction-shackled country has a limited ability to produce weapons-grade nuclear material, so every ounce of it is ...