Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is a weapon which derives its destructive force from the nuclear reactions of nuclear fission and/or fusion. As a result, even a nuclear weapon with a small yield is significantly more powerful than the largest conventional explosives, and a single weapon is capable of destroying an entire city.

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• More technical details
• Nuclear weapon design
• Nuclear explosion
• History
• History of nuclear weapons
• Manhattan Project
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Nuclear testing
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Soviet atomic bomb project
• German nuclear energy project
• Japanese atomic program
• List of nuclear accidents (including nuclear weapons accidents)
• Related technology and science
• Nuclear physics
• Nuclear fission
• Nuclear fusion
• Nuclear reactor
• Nuclear engineering
• Military strategy
• Nuclear warfare
• Nuclear strategy
• Mutual Assured Destruction
• Fractional Orbital Bombardment System
• Proliferation and politics
• Nuclear proliferation
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
• Nuclear disarmament
• International Court of Justice advisory opinion on legality of nuclear weapons
• List of countries with nuclear weapons
• Nuclear weapons and the United States
• Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom
• List of nuclear weapons
• Popular culture
• Nuclear weapons in popular culture
• Aftermath
• Nuclear winter
• Nuclear summer