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 ...

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 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 ...

The heat was 10,000 times hotter than the sun's surface Ground zero: The heat generated when the plutonium device ... sky brighten when the bomb went off. Sound from the explosion was heard ...

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 ...

The research shows that the first atomic bomb explosion’s effects had been ... On July 16, when the plutonium-implosion device was set off atop a hundred-foot metal tower in a test code-named ...

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.

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 ...