What are the different types of nuclear weapons?

There are two main categories of nuclear weapons that are classified according to their operation mechanism: fission bombs that divide heavy atomic cores for energy release, and fusion bombs that combine light cores. Fusion bombs are much stronger. In these categories of nuclear weapons, there are mild variants: for example, the salted bomb is surrounded by a layer of material that can become highly radioactive with neutron bombing, and weapons from cleavage are nuclear weapons. Neutron bombs or improved radiation are fusion weapons designed to emit intensive neutron radiation, kill all their lives in a certain area, but less damage to buildings.

Most nuclear weapons variants are designed for the spectrum of available yields and sizes for various applications. The most feared nuclear weapon of all time was the Tsar Bomb, the Soviet Fusion Bomb WJE Explosive Power 50 Megatons TNT. It was first designed to have a yield of 100 megatons, but it was reduced due to fears of fallout. On the other hand, the smallest nuclear weapons, as some tested for PlumbBob surgery at the Nevada test point, may have a yield as low as a ton TNT or less. The smallest mass pile of nuclear weapons was to deploy the crowds of Crockett head, which was designed to start infantry from small moved mortars. It was deployed in Germany to protect from the Soviet invasion of Europe.

The earliest designs of nuclear weapons were modeled on small weapons that shoot the hemisphere of highly enriched uranium into another hemisphere that cares for a nuclear reaction and subsequent release of heat and light in large quantities. Modern patterns use implosion assemblies where the balls of segmented uranium are surrounded by chemicals that all explode at the same time concentrate uranium in the centerand starts a chain reaction.

It is possible to produce nuclear weapons that are relatively small, in the order of toaster. Because extremely large nuclear weapons cause collateral damage in the form of fallout and have reduced yields because more uranium is torn apart without fission, military favors nuclear weapons in a small to medium range. More focus on the delivery method. Until they were discarded in 2005, the most terrible way of delivering nuclear weapons around the world was the American missile Peace Mírové LGM-118a. It contained 10 reentry vehicles, each with a nuclear head 25 times stronger than the bomb that burned Hiroshi. One of them could ruin the destruction on the very wide line of the Earth.

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