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THE EXPERTS AGREE: Within 10 years a nuclear warhead will devastate a major city. This is not a movie outline, but the sober consensus among intelligence analysts. Our vulnerability to attack by weapons of mass destruction has never been greater. The Cold War may be over, but every day rogue regimes pakistan nuclear weapon and developing superpowers are building up arsenals of chemical, biological, pakistan nuclear weapon and nuclear arms. While everything from anthrax to botulism to dirty bombs poses a threat, most of us are ignorant of the clear pakistan nuclear weapon and present danger. Get to know thy enemy with this overview of the current world situation, written by a journalist specializing in defense issues. From the mustard gas of World War I to the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima pakistan nuclear weapon and Nagasaki, to Hussein's gassing of Iraqui Kurds, review the methodology pakistan nuclear weapon and motivation behind historic attacks. Riveting accounts of the current crisis--from terrorist access to discarded stockpiles of deadly germs, to the potentially lethal nuclear one-upmanship between India pakistan nuclear weapon and Pakistan, to North Korea's renewed commitment to proliferation--make it clear that long after the Iraq situation is resolved, weapons of mass destruction will remain a threat to our national security pakistan nuclear weapon and world stability. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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Nuclear weapon - A nuclear weapon (the Bomb) is a weapon which derives its destructive force from the nuclear reactions of nuclear fission (the A-bomb). Besides fission, a different kind of nuclear reaction called fusion can be used to create an even more powerful explosion (the H-bomb).

Nuclear weapon design - Nuclear weapon designs are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements which allow for the detonation of a nuclear weapon. They are often divided into two classes, based on the dominant source of the weapon's energy.

Nuclear weapon delivery systems - Much of the use of nuclear weapons in nuclear strategy revolves around the development of nuclear weapons delivery systems, which are the means by which nuclear weapons are "delivered" to their targets.

Nuclear weapon yield - The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy discharged when the weapon is detonated, expressed usually in the equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene (TNT), either in kilotons (thousands of tons of TNT) or megatons (million of tons of TNT), but sometimes also in terajoules (1 kiloton of TNT = 4.184 TJ).

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