Nuclear Weapons
... I have to say that one of the complicated and sophisticated invents are the nuclear weapons. ... A nuclear weapon definitely is a destructive energy capable of kill thousands of people just in seconds. ... Another example of nuclear weaponsˇ¦ radiation would be a massive nuclear attack, which would reduce the penetration of sunlight to the earthˇ¦s surface thus leading periods of darkness and of course a high contamination that would change natural processes on the earth. The first nuclear bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, at Alamogordo, New Mexico. ... No one person in the world can be credited as the inventor of nuclear weapons. However the following are key figures, all of them inspired by the works of Einstein: Leo Szilard; who theorized that enormous amounts of energy could be released by a nuclear "chain reaction", Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer (scientific director of Los Alamos National Laboratory). Some scientists have declared that they feel remorse about the atomic bomb they invented, then created two organizations named the Federation of American Scientists and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist with the purpose to control the spread and hazard of nuclear weapons. Exist information of what and how is compose a nuclear weapon. ... The basic types of weapons are described below: Pure Fission Weapons Weapons in which only the fission reaction takes place. ... These are the simplest nuclear weapons to design and build.