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In a modern country of today's world, billions of taxpayer dollars are dedicated to ever growing militaries. This budget is used to fund a plethora of different programs. But one in particular uses the science of chemical explosions for the purpose of mass destruction. This is of course the nuclear department. In fact it is estimated that the U.S. will spend 1.2 trillion dollars over the next 30 years just to maintain its current nuclear arsenal. The nuclear bomb was developed in the Los Alamos Laboratory during the year of 1945. The bombs scientists created in that laboratory were the equivalent of 15,000 tons of TnT, while modern nukes are capable of explosion equivalent to 1.2 million tons of TnT.
While nuclear bombs are the most dangerous bombs created they are not practical for use. Because of the extreme danger behind the detonation of atomic bombs militaries’ are very wary of using  them for an airstrike. If any country launches nukes at another country mutual assured destruction will began. mutual assured destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. Which is why the most powerful bomb that is used currently is MOAB and has a blast capacity of 44 tons of TnT.
Nuclear bombs work by combining chemistry and some very dangerous elements. The processes nukes use are called nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. The process of fusion begins by bringing together to small hydrogen isotopes to form a larger isotope, the same way the sun generates its energy. Fission works by splitting the nuclei of a atom into two fragments. This process requires highly radioactive elements such as uranium 238.
Currently the most powerful nuke ever detonated is the Tsar bomb created in Russia in the 1961. This bomb weighted 60,000 pounds and was 27 feet long. If a bomb like this was dropped on a urban area the results would be completely devastating. Which is why it is scary to think that this bomb was developed in 1961. Imagine what bombs will be like in 50 years from with new technology becoming more available.
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