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  2. Mushroom cloud - Wikipedia

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    Mushroom cloud. Ascending cloud from Redoubt Volcano from an eruption on April 21, 1990. The mushroom-shaped plume rose from avalanches of hot debris (pyroclastic flows) that cascaded down the north flank of the volcano. Mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. A mushroom cloud is a distinctive mushroom ...

  3. One Second After - Wikipedia

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    The book contains a brief non-fiction afterword by U.S. Navy Captain William Sanders, regarding EMPs, which includes references to the reports of the United States EMP Commission [3] and the book The Effects of Nuclear Weapons by Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan, published by the United States Department of Defense, [4] which is a technical ...

  4. Underwater explosion - Wikipedia

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    Underwater explosion. An underwater charge explosion, conducted by the US Navy. An underwater explosion (also known as an UNDEX) is a chemical or nuclear explosion that occurs under the surface of a body of water. While useful in anti-ship and submarine warfare, underwater bombs are not as effective against coastal facilities.

  5. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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    Chongjin. Second Sino-Japanese War. On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombsover the Japanese cities of Hiroshimaand Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.

  6. Little Boy - Wikipedia

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    A full ordnance program for gun-design development was established by March 1943, with expertise provided by E.L. Rose, an experienced gun designer and engineer. Work was begun to study the properties of barrels, internal and external ballistics, and tampers of gun weapons. Oppenheimer led aspects of the effort, telling Rose that "at the ...

  7. Condensation cloud - Wikipedia

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    Condensation cloud. A transient condensation cloud, also called a Wilson cloud, is observable surrounding large explosions in humid air. When a nuclear weapon or high explosive is detonated in sufficiently humid air, the "negative phase" of the shock wave causes a rarefaction of the air surrounding the explosion but not of the air contained ...

  8. Talk:Firestorm/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    So yes, include the below reference and get rid of the 2005 book as the main reference that copied it, as it is not freely available for readers to read, Glasstone & Dolan's book is more accessible. Glasstone, Samuel; Dolan, Philip J., eds. (1977), ""Chapter VII — Thermal Radiation and Its Effects", The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Third ed ...

  9. Pressurized water reactor - Wikipedia

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    Glasstone, Samuel; Sesonske, Alexander (1994). Nuclear Reactor Engineering. Chapman and Hall. ISBN 978-0412985218. Jacquemain, Didier (2015). Nuclear Power Reactor Core Melt Accidents (PDF). Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire. p. 12. ISBN 978-2-7598-1835-8. Mosey, David (1990). Reactor Accidents. Nuclear Engineering ...