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Ten Facts I Bet You Didn't Know About Nuclear Weapons

By Michael Goldstein, published Dec 31, 2007

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One nuclear bomb explosion is equal to about seventeen thousand tons of normal TNT.

Nuclear weapons get there energy from the fission the nuclei of uranium or plutonium atoms.

There have been over two thousand nuclear explosions worldwide raising background radiation and contributing to air and water contamination.

Building of nuclear weapons started when scientist split uranium atoms using neutrons. The scientists observed that the atoms gave off high amounts of energy.

Nuclear radiation usually plagues the site where nuclear weapons were detonated. People that live near these sites will usually die due to the radiation. People that live in Nagasaki, Japan today still have a chance to become sick because of the radiation from the United States nuclear attack sixty two years ago.

The destructive power of nuclear weapons is so great that it will knock down buildings up to twelve miles away from the site point of impact.

Now there are many nuclear weapons treaties in place so nuclear war will not start.

America and Russia are the two countries with the most nuclear weapons and the most nuclear launch sites.

There are American laws in place that state America will not fire a nuclear weapon unless directly attacked by a country with nuclear weapons or attacked by allies of a country which has nuclear weapons.

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