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• Nuclear explosive — A nuclear explosive is an explosive device that derives its energy from nuclear reactions. Almost all nuclear explosive devices that have been designed and produced are nuclear weapons intended for warfare. Other, non warfare, applications for… …   Wikipedia

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• Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy — (sometimes referred to as Program #7[1]), was a Soviet program to investigate peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs). It was analogous to the US program Operation Plowshare. One of the better known tests was Chagan of January 15, 1965. Radioactivity… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear weapon design — The first nuclear weapons, though large, cumbersome and inefficient, provided the basic design building blocks of all future weapons. Here the Gadget device is prepared for the first nuclear test: Trinity. Nuclear weapon designs are physical,… …   Wikipedia

• nuclear weapon — an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei. [1945 50] * * * or atomic weapon or thermonuclear weapon Bomb or other warhead that derives its force …   Universalium

• Nuclear bunker buster — Subsidence craters left over after underground nuclear (test) explosions Bunker busting nuclear weapons, also known as earth penetrating weapons (EPW), are a type of nuclear weapon designed to penetrate into soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a… …   Wikipedia

• explosive — explosively, adv. explosiveness, n. /ik sploh siv/, adj. 1. tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance. 2. pertaining to or of the nature of an explosion: explosive violence. 3. likely to lead to… …   Universalium

• Nuclear weapon — A bomb redirects here. For other uses, see A bomb (disambiguation). The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945 …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear proliferation — World map with nuclear weapons development status represented by color.   Five nuclear weapons states from the NPT …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear program of Iran — See also: Iran and weapons of mass destruction Nuclear program of Iran …   Wikipedia