Ask a Physicist 9.1 Nuclear Weapons

A video about nuclear weapons, how they work and how they have impacted our history.
This first part focuses on the nuclear reactions that go on in a nuclear explosion.

For More information see:
- Lecture on Binding energy:
http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/PVB/DBailey/SubAtomic/Lectures/LectF25/Lect25.htm
- The strength of the strong force:
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/questions/strong_force.html
- Info and pictures form Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
http://www.atomcentral.com/hironaga.html
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Japan/Hirosh.html
- A visual Timeline of Nuclear Weapons (must see):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJe7fY-yowk&feature=mh_lolz&list=LLozH...
- Stephen Hawking's Universe: Stellar Factories:
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/stephen-hawkings-universe-stellar-factories.html
-Neil Degrasse Tyson The Elements: Forged in Stars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-LXUHJmzzc

Category:

Education

Tags:

• nuclear weapons
• nuclear bombs
• atomic bombs
• hiroshima
• nagasaki
• nuclear energy
• destruction
• blast
• destroy
• missile
• rocket
• mass
• power
• explosions

[oicub2]

Great vid friend =-)

funny thing about einstein's equation e=mc2 , when you say it backward its "to see me " 2 C me .. =-)

[ASKaPHYSICIST]

@oicub2 but what about the equal sign?

[variezn34gm]

HI from AZ:  Therefore you are a mass ive (1) and your 'light' = 90 trillion.

[ASKaPHYSICIST]

@variezn34gm what?

[r0b0tj0n3s]

Great video, but i have to ask. How does this reaction play into nuclear reactors? i remember being told that the process was different from nuclear explosives, but it would seem that modern reactors are beginning to turn to nuclear fusion rather than fission. Isn't it the same highly explosive process?

[ASKaPHYSICIST]

@r0b0tj0n3s The processes are the same, but the methods of inducing them are different. They are more controlled than in the bombs. And you're right, current generators make use of nuclear Fission, splitting apart uranium nuclei, but we are working on getting fusion to work (have a look into 'magnetic confinement fusion' or 'inertial confinement fusion' if you're interested.

[JonestownHangover]

R.I.P right headphone.

[creativeprojects720]

good video

[antesignani]

i wondering if you could explain the radiation implosion channels in hydrogen bombs, and how the polystyrene foam creates enough force to implode the thermonuclear fuel?

[TaZ101SAGA]

Wow, fantastic video, made me understand things much better! Thanks!

[kevinmorais]

Hey there are Atomic Bombs, what about Molecular Bombs, like the ones Hitler had built and they are apparently Eco-friendly (no fall out) so when our Authority's blow us up they do it Greenly :)

[oicub2]

@ASKaPHYSICIST its just an illusion , albeit a very persistent one =-)

[oicub2]

@ASKaPHYSICIST its just an illusion , albeit a very persistent one =-)

[variezn34gm]

@ASKaPHYSICIST If you were the concept of GENESIS 1.1 and GENESIS 6.5, and required to comply with with the concept of GENESIS 6.7 beginning on 9.11.2011 in accordance with REVELATION 20.12, what is the answer to to the false science of the NWO group that are the terrorists best described in the concept of GENESIS 4.9-11.. . and have the ability to destroy all life on this planet ..

EJLima