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  2. Bomb - Wikipedia

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    The explosion of a bomb may be triggered by a detonator or a fuse. Detonators are triggered by clocks, remote controls like cell phones or some kind of sensor, such as pressure (altitude), radar, vibration or contact. Detonators vary in ways they work, they can be electrical, fire fuze or blast initiated detonators and others,

  3. Zip bomb - Wikipedia

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    A famous example of a zip bomb is titled 42.zip, which is a zip file of unknown authorship [4] consisting of 42 kilobytes of compressed data, containing five layers of nested zip files in sets of 16, each bottom-layer archive containing a 4.3-gigabyte (4 294 967 295 bytes; 4 GiB − 1 B) file for a total of 4.5 petabytes (4 503 599 626 321 920 ...

  4. Antimatter weapon - Wikipedia

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    An antimatter weapon is a theoretically possible device using antimatter as a power source, a propellant, or an explosive for a weapon.Antimatter weapons are currently too costly and unreliable to be viable in warfare, as producing antimatter is enormously expensive (estimated at US$6 billion for every 100 nanograms), the quantities of antimatter generated are very small, and current ...

  5. Underground nuclear weapons testing - Wikipedia

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    When the device being tested is buried at sufficient depth, the nuclear explosion may be contained, with no release of radioactive materials to the atmosphere. The extreme heat and pressure of an underground nuclear explosion cause changes in the surrounding rock. The rock closest to the location of the test is vaporised, forming a cavity.

  6. Brookhaven - Wikipedia

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    Brookhaven College, a college in Dallas, Texas; Brookhaven Town Council, governing body of Brookhaven, New York; Brookhaven High School (Columbus, Ohio), a high school in Columbus, Ohio; Brookhaven National Laboratory, a research facility in Upton, New York; Brookhaven RP, a game on the Roblox platform [broken anchor

  7. If a nuclear weapon is about to explode, here's what a safety ...

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    The single-most important thing to remember if a nuclear bomb is supposed to explode, he says, is to shelter in place. "There were survivors in Hiroshima within 300 meters of the epicenter ...

  8. Bomb suit - Wikipedia

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    An EOD technician wearing a bomb suit. A bomb suit, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) suit or a blast suit is a heavy suit of body armor designed to withstand the pressure generated by a bomb and any fragments the bomb may produce. [1] [2] [3] It is usually worn by trained personnel attempting bomb disposal.

  9. Air burst - Wikipedia

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    A blast wave reflecting from a surface and forming a mach stem. The air burst is usually 100 to 1,000 m (330 to 3,280 ft) above the hypocenter to allow the shockwave of the fission or fusion driven explosion to bounce off the ground and back into itself, combining two wave fronts and creating a shockwave that is more forceful than the one resulting from a detonation at ground level.