Often, plutonium is used ... Certainly, there has never been a nuclear bomb in space and never any nuclear explosion, right? The Space Treaty explicitly forbids it! Granted, but it was signed ...

It means that preliminary plans for plutonium pit bomb production at two sites designated ... a nuclear fission reaction causing a nuclear explosion. The U.S. currently has 50 metric tons of ...

The plane's crew didn't see an explosion afterward ... progressed to sealed nuclear weapons. Instead, the plutonium was separate from the bomb casing and the explosives that caused the implosion ...

In theory, such an explosion is entirely possible ... They theorize that it had an old-style atom bomb (U-235 or plutonium) as a detonator at its center. Around this was hydrogen-containing ...

The plutonium bomb—nicknamed the Gadget—was set atop this hundred-foot steel tower, which vaporized in the explosion. "From the Trinity test,” a 2010 Centers for Disease Control and ...

They fit inside a warhead and create a nuclear explosion ... plutonium pits were created at the Los Alamos site for the Trinity test, which saw the world’s first detonation of a nuclear bomb ...

Newly designed plutonium pits will serve as “triggers” for the next generation of nuclear warheads mounted atop Sentinel, the next generation of intercontinental ballistic missile, and for new ...

The first nuclear explosion was of a plutonium implosion ... and the second triggered three days later by a plutonium bomb that shattered Nagasaki. More than 150,000 people were killed in the ...

The famed 1918 McDonald adobe ranch house, where the bomb’s critical plutonium core was assembled ... unleashing the ferocity of the atom, with an explosion 10,000 times hotter than our sun.