Nuclear Weapons

A nuclear weapon (also called an atom bomb, nuke, atomic bomb, nuclear warhead, A-bomb, or nuclear bomb) is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb). Both bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The first test of a fission ("atomic") bomb released an amount of energy approximately equal to 20,000 tons of TNT (84 TJ). The first thermonuclear ("hydrogen") bomb test released energy approximately equal to 10 million tons of TNT (42 PJ). Nuclear bombs …

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11 May 2022 English

Gill Bennett, Anthony Glees, Michael Goodman, Matthew Jones, Michael Morgan and Denis Smyth

After Hiroshima: The United States, Race, and Nuclear Weapons in Asia, 1945-1965 (Cambridge University Press


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

REARMAMENT, D E P L O Y I N G MEDIUM RANGE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, PLANNING FOR A L I M I T E D NUCLEAR WAR


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

create untold and unforeseeable dangers nuclear weapons on a vast scale, even scrutiny. There is the domestic policy the United States' tactical nuclear weapons would add to the sive governments have precisely


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

achieving significant reductions in strategic nuclear weapons. The United Kingdom has also played an active nuclear. It might be better to say 'where nuclear weapons do not play a part in existing security arrangements' NATO's plans to deploy intermediate range nuclear weapons in Europe is the most obvious example of their


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

movement, (and maintain a low profile about nuclear weapons on their territory). Their special concern American offer of drastic cut in theatre nuclear weapons - the zero level. Essential to remain solidly


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

West, by its refusal to include all European nuclear weapons within the sphere of arms talks, did not approach would emerge from these talks on e.g. limiting nuclear weapons in Europe. Bilateral relations between Eastern American intentions in the talks on medium range nuclear weapons were genuine. Mr Puja confirmed that this



The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

documents cover Soviet press articles on the conflict; Soviet reports that the British fleet carried nuclear weapons and that some had been lost following the sinking of H.M.S. Sheffield; Soviet press coverage

the F a l k l a n d s • Task Force carried nuclear weapons. Apart from this and the historical/ legal I T ^ b . v itDC h W ^ I PALKIATTDS: NUCLEAR WEAPONS U ^ J * I 1 . The Soviet media have heen British fleet in the South Atlantic aarried nuclear weapons. The Soviet I army newspaper "Krasnaya ¿ had sunk 1 w i t h its full complement of nuclear weapons still on board. "Krasnaya I ¿vezda" also evidence that the Falklands.task force carried nuclear | weapons "which, moreover, could have been used by


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French

A file containing documents relating to Western export credits for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Subjects covered in the file include the involvement of the Export Credits Guarantee Department …

U C T I O N S IN THE S T R A T E G I C NUCLEAR WEAPONS • OF THE TWO C O U N T R I E S , AND FOR R I N T E R M E D I A T E - R A N G E NUCLEAR • WEAPONS, S T A R T I N G WITH THE T O T A L E L


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

advocating the renunciation of the first use of nuclear weapons, and took the opportunity to make familiar highlighted Haig's admission that the first use of nuclear weapons was the chief element of the policy of flexible radical mutual reductions of medium-range nuclear weapons (by two thirds already by the year 1990) with ultimate goal of fully ridding Europe of all nuclear weapons — medium-range and tactical ones alike; - ing new ceilings for individual types of nuclear weapons (and this, exactly, is the first real prerequisite


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