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With conventional explosives to assemble a supercritical mass before it can begin a spontaneous chain reaction, melt and fizzle. Then a neutron source sprays the supercritical mass with a burst of neutrons at the optimal time to trigger a high efficiency chain reaction. The conventional explosives were detonated with electrical exploding wire detonators.
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Was the atomic bomb the worlds biggest nuclear explosion?
No. Hydrogen Bombs have been detonated that make the atomic bomb look small in comparison. The Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan in WW2 were 25 Kton (equivilent to 25000 tons of dynamite), while H bombs can be as big as several hundred Megaton (million tons of dynamite)
What is the biggest nuclear bomb ever detonated called?
c4
Has a hydrogen bomb ever been detonated?
Yes, the first was detonated by the U.S. in 1952.Codename Mike as part of Operation Ivy, it had a yield of 10.4 megatons(450 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Nagasaki)and was detonated at Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall islands.
How many people does a nuclear bomb kill?
Depends on yield and where detonated.
Who discoverd the atomic bomb?
The atomic bomb is an artefact, and so an invention. Maybe you meant to ask who invented the atomic bomb ?
Did the us drop the first atomic bomb?
The first atomic bomb detonated was not dropped, it was hung from the top of a steel structure and detonated remotely.
Who detonated their first atomic bomb in 1949?
USSR
Is the atomic bomb dangerous?
It is not , if it is not detonated and it is properly maintained.
Where was the world's first atomic bomb detonated?
Trinity Site, NM, 1945
Did the Cold War start in 1945?
The atomic bomb was detonated in 1945.
Where was the second atomic bomb landed?
The atomic bombs did not land, they were detonated 2000 feet in the air above Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What big thing happened in Hiroshima?
The first atomic bomb was detonated on the city of Hiroshima, Japan
Why was the first atomic bomb detonated in New Mexico?
The US needed a place to test the bomb, and the desert in New Mexico was the best place.
Which state Was the worlds first atomic bomb detonated in?
Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
How was the atomic bomb trinity detonated?
By cables from a bunker 10,000 yards south from the tower that held the Gadget.
The first atomic bomb was dropped on .?
Hiroshima was the first to be bombed in World War 2.
Where was the second atomic bomb ever used in wartime dropped?
On August 9, 1945, the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb was detonated over Nagasaki.
