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Book Reviews: the Mouse That Roared, Pgs. 89-150
The Mouse That Roared, Leonard Wibberley, 150 pages.
B) Historical/Cultural Information
Nuclear Weapon - A nuclear weapon is a weapon that gets its energy from nuclear reactions. Nuclear weapons are extremely destructive, even the smallest nuclear bombs are more powerful than most conventional explosives, and the largest ones can destroy a whole city. Nuclear weapons have only been used twice in war, when the U.S. dropped them on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII. Since then over 2000 have been set off for testing purposes by; U.S., Russia, France, England, China, India and Pakistan.
There are three main types of nuclear weapons; Fission bombs, Fusion bombs, and dirty bombs. Fission bombs get there power from nuclear fission, where heavy nuclei split into lighter elements when bombarded by neutrons. These bombs are historically called atom bombs, or A-Bombs. Fusion bombs are based on...
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