Showing posts with label detonation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label detonation. Show all posts

Thursday, August 7, 2025

80 years ago, a nuclear bomb detonated in Hiroshima.

80 years ago, a nuclear bomb detonated in Hiroshima. 


6 August 1945, the first nuclear bomb detonated over the city of Hiroshima. The bomb was a so-called uranium bomb, and that means it used so-called Oak Ridge alloy or enriched uranium as fuel. After that, most of those weapons are used with plutonium as fuel. The Hiroshima bomb, called "Little Boy," used a cannon device; two uranium bits shot against each other. Most of those horrifying weapons use a so-called implosion mechanism where the ball-shaped plutonium will collapse due to high explosives pressing the plutonium ball. 

The reason for the plutonium path was simple. The uranium bomb was harder to control. The plutonium bomb needs nuclear reactors. And that makes it easier to control, and the process is always easier to stop. But when we think of the implosion (ball-collapse) method. That thing also works with uranium bombs. In a hydrogen bomb, the implosion, or fission bombs, gives power to fusion. 

The system normally uses lithium hydride, where deuterium is stored, and then the pressure of the radiation causes fusion in those systems. There is also the possibility of using hollow fission bombs to create high-power laser rays. The system explodes a nuclear bomb around the laser element. And that allows the system to create ultra-powerful laser beams. 

The destruction and humanitarian suffering were enormous. Both of those weapons delivered radioactive material all around the target area. The thing is that the Nagasaki bomb, "Fat Man," detonated over Nagasaki Bay. And the entire force of the bomb didn't reach the city. Those days were the most impressive and saddest days in the history of physics. The destruction was terrifying. 

There were two reasons for those nuclear strikes. The first one was to demonstrate the power of those weapons to Japan. And force it to surrender without exosions. The war in the Pacific was very traumatic. The Japanese fought back to the final men. And they didn't surrender. Many Japanese choose suicide, or they try to attack Allied soldiers even if their ammunition has ended. The flamethrowers were commonly used, and that caused trauma on both sides. 

The U.S. commanders believed that there would be millions of losses on the U.S. side if they landed on the Japanese home islands. The battles in Okinawa and Iwo Jima gave an introduction to what came on the main islands. So the U.S. military gave orders to use that weapon. The other purpose of that operation was to introduce that weapon to Joseph Stalin. In the lines of the Western Allies, Stalin was the potential enemy. 

The idea was that the bomb would deter Soviet aggression against Western allies. But in 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear bomb called "Joe 1 (RDS-1). And after that, many other nations noticed that nuclear weapons would give them new power and value. 

But the Cold War began a couple of years after World War II. Did that bomb deny the Soviet escalation? Nobody knows. But in the Cold War and after that, nuclear weapons played a bigger and bigger role in the global political field. The idea of the nuclear weapon was that it denies war. It was so frightening that many people resisted that weapon. But otherwise, all leaders know its value in the geopolitical field. Today, there are many more states with nuclear weapons than ever before. That means there are no agreements that are trusted enough. 


https://www.atomicarchive.com/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-1


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon


Thursday, January 13, 2022

The material and antimatter are both giving the same response to gravitation.


Image: Pinterest


The material and antimatter are both giving the same response to gravitation. This thing is proving that antimatter is "only" the mirror material. And there is the possibility that there are stars or even galaxies that are formed of antimatter. It is suspicious that even in our galaxy, the Milky Way might lurk the antistars or stars that are formed of antimatter. Those stars are impossible to separate from the "normal stars" until some material particle touches them. 

That causes a terrible explosion. One way to search the antimatter stars is to look for the supernovas that are suddenly exploding. The supernova explosion is normally happening when the old star is used all of its fuel. So the detonating star is red. If a yellow or young star suddenly detonates the reason for that detonation could be an antimatter object. Or otherwise, the material object can hit the antistar.  When antimatter faces material that thing causes the reaction called annihilation. In that reaction, the entire mass of material and antimatter that involves the reaction is turning energy. 

The energy load of antimatter is so powerful. That there is needed only a gram to destroy the entire Earth. And the "magical gram" of antimatter is needed to make the spacecraft travel to Alpha Centauri. Production and storing of antimatter are extremely expensive.  

Storing the antimatter particles will happen in the magnetic bottles where the magnetic field hovers those particles. There are two ways to store antimatter particles. One is the magnetic accelerator. That looks a little bit like "Tokamak"-reactor or donut. In that system, the antimatter particles like antiprotons and positrons. (anti-electrons) are kept in motion. In another version, the antimatter particles will store. 

Positron crystals are electron crystals that are forming of positrons (anti-electrons). That crystal can be the graphene where positrons are between the squares. Also, nanotubes can store antimatter. In that case, positrons or antiprotons can be put to hover in the nanotube. And the outcoming magnetic field can push that material out the core of that structure. 


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There is possible to use the Teller Bombs or antimatter bombs in the interstellar version of the "Project Orion". 



Image: Wikipedia/Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)

The goal of Project Orion in the case of space nuclear propulsion was the rocket that planned to use nuclear bombs for the thrust. The US government set that project in the 1950s. For research the ability to use nuclear bombs for interplanetary spacecraft. 

The series of one kiloton nuclear bombs can accelerate the craft traveling in the solar system. Small antimatter bombs or Teller bombs can give more capacity for that system. 

The idea is to store the positrons or antiprotons in the bottle where the magnetic field is keeping them away from the core. The bottles can shoot backward by using a magnetic accelerator or simply a rocket engine. Then the polarity of the magnetic field is changed. And those antimatter particles will pull against the core of that bottle. That causes detonation that would push the craft forward. 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)


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Or maybe Wigner crystal can use to store antiprotons. The antiproton is a negative particle opposite to a proton. That means the Wigner crystal could store that material. And the only needed thing is just to deny the antimatter touch the material. 

The same way is possible to make the proton and anti-proton crystals. That term means the material or antimatter structures that are formed only by protons. In those cases, the outcoming magnetic field is pressing those particles together. 

The name positron means "positive electrons". Normally electrons have a negative polarity. But anti-electrons have a positive electric load. The anti-electrons can move by using laser tweezers. Laser- or maser tweezers are crossing laser or some other coherent electromagnetic radiation that can move particles. And because the anti-electrons are otherwise acting like electrons they can put them to the structure called positron crystals. 

In the simply magnetic storage or bottle. The magnets are needed to push the antimatter particles away from the core of the bottle. The anti-electrons or positrons can be put to the form of electron crystals the same way as electrons. The positron crystals can be the key to the most powerful engines in the world. And those positron crystals can make the "Teller bomb" or antimatter bomb true. 

The size of those small magnetic storages could be very small. And the power load from the positron crystals is extremely powerful. The antimatter can use as weapons, engine fuel. Or it can use to destroy incoming asteroids or comets. So someday the antimatter bomb that is the most horrifying device in history can use to destroy the rogue planet that is coming to our solar system. 


https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/stars-antimatter-galaxy-milky-way-space-antistar


https://www.space.com/matter-antimatter-same-response-to-gravity


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner_crystal


https://thoughtsaboutsuperpositions.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 26, 2018

The story of 50 megatons nuclear bomb



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Kimmo Huosionmaa

In 1961 The Soviet Union exploded the most powerful nuclear weapon ever. Its code name was “Tsar” (RDS 220) and the power of that weapon was 50-60 megaton. The explosion happened at Novaja-Zemlja and the power of that detonation was the size of all explosives what was used in the Second World war multiplied by ten. The unit was massive FFF-(Fission Fusion-Fission) bomb, what structure was like the onion, with layers of lithium and natural uranium. Nowadays the scientists think that the reason to build and detonate this monstrous weapon was that the Soviet Air Force didn’t expect that their bombers and missiles were getting close enough to their targets, and that’s why they build the most powerful nuclear detonator ever built. In that time nuclear weapons were more powerful than today because the guidance systems of missiles and bombers were not enough advanced.


That was the reason, why those weapons needed to be very powerful. Also, detonation systems were not allowed to synchronize the group explosions, where multiple warheads could detonate at the precisely same time. The 50 megaton nuclear explosive would seem like dramatic, but the problem of those very powerful weapons is, that they would destroy all Europe by the single shot. In this scenario, both side troops would also be destroyed, if that kind of monstrous weapon would be detonated. The problems with building the nuclear weapons are that their destructive area must be known very good, that they would have any tactical use.


Then we are talking about the weapons, what have the size of “Tsar-bomb” there is very small change, that there would create the black hole in the atmosphere. In this scenario in the bomb would leave the symmetrical dust bite, and then the explosives would press enough energy to the small bite, that it would turn to singularity or black hole. “Tsar-bomb” is the base of “Status-6” nuclear torpedo. This weapon would create the huge tsunami if it would be detonated at sea, and both beaches would cause very much damages. If the Tsar-bomb would detonate at Helsinki, the Saint Petersburg would destroy at the same time. But when we are talking about the development of nuclear weapons, there is one thing what the developer must know. It is the purpose of developing that weapon.


There are two types of nuclear warheads. Another is very powerful strategic weapons, what mission is to give threat to other nations. The other type of weapons is smaller tactical devices, what are meant to destroy enemy troops. In that mission, the user of the nuclear weapon must know the destruction radius exactly. If this radius is not well known, the nuclear weapon would cause the destruction of both sides of the troops. Radioactive fallout makes the area dangerous for people, and the massive cleaning operations must be done. The super powerful weapons are so-called mutual associated nukes. Their mission would be last change. if the war has begun.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMYYEsKvHvk




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http://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.fi/p/the-story-of-50-megatons-nuclear-bomb.html

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