NUCLEAR WARFARE Nuclear Weapons are explosive devices made to release nuclear energy. The first atomic bomb, which was tested on July 16, 1945, at Alamogordo, New Mexico, represented a completely new type of artificial explosive. All explosives get their power from the rapid burning or decomposition of some chemical compound. Such chemical processes release only the energy of the outermost electrons in the atom. Nuclear explosives involve energy sources within the core, or nucleus, of the atom. …
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…months, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, destroying plant life and creating a subfreezing climate until the dust dispersed. The ozone layer might also be affected, permitting further damage as a result of the sun's ultraviolet radiation. From all this you can see the mass destruction the one bomb can do. It can't take out the whole human race. From my point of view we should be prepared for something like this because it could happen.