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	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> bomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bombs are first and foremost weapons; the term "bomb" is not usually applied to explosive devices used for civilian purposes, such as construction or mining, although the people using the devices may sometimes refer to them as bombs.
		A bomb may also be positioned in advance and concealed, for example in a garbage container, car or truck as a car bomb, or by the roadside in a roadside bomb, in a building as a booby trap, or in lugguage and in a vehicle.
		In the case of suicide bombing the bomb is often carried by the attacker on his or her body, or a in a vehicle driven to the target.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/bomb (1639 words)

	Salted bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A salted bomb is a nuclear weapon constructed like fission-fusion-fission weapons, but instead of a fissionable jacket around the secondary stage fusion fuel, a blanket of a specially chosen isotope of a non-fissionable element is used, (cobalt-59 in the case of the cobalt bomb).
		The idea of the cobalt bomb originated with Leo Szilard who publicized it in Feb. 1950, not as a serious proposal for weapon, but to point out that it would soon be possible in principle to build a doomsday device that could kill everybody on earth.
		Compared to other nuclear weapons, a salted bomb of low explosive yield could kill off life in an area while leaving buildings and machinery intact, in this way a salted bomb is comparable to a neutron bomb.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salted_bomb (819 words)

	Cobalt bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A cobalt bomb, a type of salted bomb (see more on this topic under this reference), is a form of nuclear weapon originally proposed by physicist Leó Szilárd, in which the weapon's tamper is made of ordinary cobalt metal, rather than a second fissionable material like U-235.
		In the twenty-first century, new attention came to cobalt-60 as a weapon of mass destruction, as the possibility of creating a dirty bomb to disperse this material might produce a swath of death downwind from it, over a significant area, as a terrorist attack.
		This is simpler than an actual nuclear weapon cobalt bomb, with a smaller range, though it is suggested that it could slaughter millions of people in a dense urban area [2] (although to reach a death toll this high would require exceedingly large and impractical amounts of material).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cobalt_bomb (682 words)

	Nuclear weapon design - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fission bombs derive their power from nuclear fission, where heavy nuclei (uranium or plutonium) are bombarded by neutrons and split into lighter elements, more neutrons, and energy.
		Fusion bombs are based on nuclear fusion where light nuclei such as hydrogen and helium combine together into heavier elements and release large amounts of energy.
		A pure fission bomb is practically limited to a yield of a few hundred kilotons by the large amounts of fissile material needed to make a large weapon.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Nuclear_weapons_design (5346 words)

	Nuclear weapon
		Fission bombs derive their power from nuclear fission, where heavy nuclei (uranium or plutonium) split into lighter elements when bombarded by neutrons (produce more neutrons which bombard other nuclei, triggering a chain reaction).
		These are historically called atom bombs or A-bombs, though this name is not precise due to the fact that chemical reactions release energy from atomic bonds and fusion is no less atomic than fission.
		The distinction between these two types of weapon is blurred by the fact that they are combined in nearly all complex modern weapons: a smaller fission bomb is first used to reach the necessary conditions of high temperature and pressure to allow fusion to occur.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/at/Atom_bombs.html (3131 words)

	The Never-Tested Doomsday Bomb
		In an atomic bomb, uranium or plutonium is split into lighter elements that together weigh less than the original atoms, the remainder of the mass appearing as energy.
		The theorized cobalt bomb is, on the contrary, a radioactively "dirty bomb having a cobalt tamper.
		The idea of the cobalt bomb originated with Leo Szilard who publicized it in Feb. 1950, not as a serious proposal for weapon, but to point out that it would soon be possible in principle to build a weapon that could kill everybody on earth.
	www.rense.com /general40/dooms.htm (1324 words)

	Vault-C0 » Myths About The Doomsday Bomb & Cobalt-60 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The reality of a truly apocalyptic nuclear war that included the use of cobalt salted weapons is that shelter inhabitants might have to stay as long as a year underground in some conditions.
		I can see people who do not have fixed shelters surviving a cobalt salted nuclear war if they were able to prepare a little in advance, say in an underground parking garage or similar shelter, with sufficient water/food or access to same and enough time to get their gear together.
		I believe it is America that will be the first nation to use cobalt salted weapons in WW3, just as they were the first nation to use atomic weapons and the first to use depleted uranium in ordinance.
	www.vault-co.com /index.php?p=19 (743 words)

	Facts about Nuclear Weapons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The explosion of such a bomb is then like forty thousand conventional bombs exploding simultaneously at the same point.
		Salted nuclear weapons, or cobalt bombs, are thermonuclear weapons which are designed to produce a large amount of long lasting radioactive fallout.
		The fallout from salted weapons is much more intense and lasts much longer than from unsalted weapons.
	www.isanw.org /facts/weapons.html (1526 words)

	MILNET: Carey Sublette's Nuclear Weapons FAQ
		Bombs that release a significant amount of energy directly by fusion, but do not use fusion neutrons to fission the fusion stage jacket, are called Fission-Fusion weapons.
		Bombs that are billed as "clean" bombs (a relative term) obtain a large majority of their total yield from fusion.
		Neutron bombs, more formally referred to as "enhanced radiation (ER) warheads", are small thermonuclear weapons in which the burst of neutrons generated by the fusion reaction is intentionally not absorbed inside the weapon, but allowed to escape.
	www.milnet.com /nukeweap/Nfaq1.html (6150 words)

	Nuclear weapon - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Types of weapons Fission bombs derive their power from nuclear fission, where heavy nuclei (uranium or plutonium) split into lighter elements when bombarded by neutrons (produce more neutrons which bombard other nuclei, triggering a chain reaction).
		The stunning power and the astonishing visual effects are a strong influence on art, from Andy Warhol's silkscreen Atomic Bomb (1965) and James Rosenquist's F-111 (1964-65) to Gregory Green's constructions and the efforts of artist James Acord to use uranium in his sculptures.
		The so-called dirty bomb was predicted in a 1943 article by Robert A. Heinlein titled "Solution Unsatisfactory" which caused him to be investigated by the FBI, concerned that there had been a breach of security on the Manhattan Project.
	www.questionz.net /Computer/Hydrogen_bomb.html (2870 words)

	TIME.com: fy for Doomsday -- Nov. 24, 1961 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The detonator of a thermonuclear bomb is a fission bomb containing plutonium or uranium 235, and its explosion sets off the main charge of fusion material, which is essentially deuterium (heavy hydrogen).
		Result: the bigger the bomb, the cheaper it is in terms of explosive yield.
		Among the techniques: >A nuclear bomb could be loaded on a submarine or barge and planted on the ocean bottom near the coast of a target country.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,828877,00.html (691 words)

	Nuclear Weapons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The way the bomb was design was that a Beryllium/Polonium mixture, radioactive elements that release neutrons, would be placed in the center of a sphere.
		When the bomb was detonated, the sphere would implode, or collapse inward, causing all the plutonium to fuse together, reach supercritical mass, and start the chain reaction.
		The idea of the cobalt bomb originated with Leo Szilard who publicized it in February 1950, not as a serious proposal for a weapon, but to point out that it would soon be possible in principle to build a single weapon that would kill everyone on earth.
	hypertextbook.com /physics/modern/weapons (1085 words)

	nucler weapon information,nuclear weapon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dirty bomb is now a term for a radiologicalweapon, a non-nuclear bomb that disperses radioactive material that was packed in with the bomb.
		Dirty bombs, similar to otherenhanced fallout weapons of more technologically sophisticated design, are area denial weapons that can render an area unfit for habitation for years or decades after thedetonation.
		A final variant of the thermonucler weapons is the enhanced radiation weapon, or neutron bomb, which is a small thermonucler weapon in which the burst ofneutrons generated by the fusion reaction is intentionally not absorbed inside the weapon, but allowed to escape.
	www.vsearchmedia.com /nucler_weapon.html (3396 words)

	Nuclear Bombs vs Dirty Bombs vs Suitcase Bombs
		The U.S. government has a limited supply in case of a nuclear bomb detonation or nuclear reactor accident/attack, yet Potassium Iodide must be taken during or before exposure to radioactive iodine to be effective.
		A "dirty bomb" is a conventional explosive, such as dynamite, salted with radioactive waste that scatters when the bomb goes off.
		The bomb can kill or injure through the initial blast of the conventional explosive and possibly through the dispersal of the radioactive materials-- hence the term "dirty." Such bombs could be small devices or as big as a truck bomb.
	www.nukepills.com /nuclear_dirty_bombs.htm (879 words)

	Nuclear Weapons...Inanot.com
		These are historically called atom bombs or A-bombs, though this name is not precise due to the fact that chemical reactions release energy from atomic bonds too, and fusion is no less atomic than fission.
		When added to the dust of radioactive material released by the bomb itself, a large amount of radioactive material is released into the environment.
		This form of radioactive contamination is known as nuclear fallout and poses the primary risk of exposure to ionizing radiation for a large nuclear weapon.
	www.inanot.com /nuclearweapons.html (3701 words)

	Section 1.0 Types of Nuclear Weapons
		The fast fission of the secondary jacket in a fission-fusion-fission bomb is sometimes thought of, or referred to, as a "third stage" in the bomb, and it is in a sense.
		For a "mere" 600 rad dose the distances are 1100 m and 700 m respectively, and for unprotected soldiers 600 rad exposures occur at 1350 m and 900 m.
		A "salted" nuclear weapon is reminiscent of fission-fusion-fission weapons, but instead of a fissionable jacket around the secondary stage fusion fuel, a non-fissionable blanket of a specially chosen salting isotope is used (cobalt-59 in the case of the cobalt bomb).
	nuclearweaponarchive.org /Nwfaq/Nfaq1.html (6049 words)

	TIME.com: The "Dirty Bomb" Scenario -- Page 1
		A dirty bomb is a conventional explosive salted with radioactive isotopes in order to spew out that nuclear material and contaminate a wide area.
		While it may be far from inconceivable that bin Laden's network may have the capability to create a dirty bomb, operating a nuclear program would be a Herculean challenge for an organization whose survival depends on its relative invisibility.
		And given that a dirty bomb's function is primarily to spread terror through contamination, terrorists may be inclined to view chemical and biological weapons as a more attractive investment.
	www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,182637,00.html (939 words)

	Atomic Rocket: Space War: Weapons
		An "atomic bomb" is a weapon with a war-head powered by nuclear fission.
		In fact, almost 90% of the bomb energy will appear as x-rays behaving as if they are from a point source (specifically 80% soft X-rays and 10% gamma), and subject to the good old inverse square law (i.e., the intensity will fall off very quickly with range).
		The good news for antimatter bomb makers is that electron-positron annihilations create flaming death in the form of a pair of deadly gamma rays.
	www.projectrho.com /rocket/rocket3x.html (16630 words)

	Nuclear Weapon News and Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While all major societal groups examined in the poll feel the development of the bomb was bad, Japanese men and adults in their twenties and thirties are about twice as likely as women and older Japanese to say that development of the atomic bomb was a good thing.
		Detonators had been installed on a nuclear bomb on board, but because the capsule of fissile material had not been inserted, nuclear detonation was not possible.
		Preliminary exam by bomb disposal officer says a miracle that one Mark Six with exposed detonators sheared didn't go." A Defense Department description of the accident said "no capsules of nuclear materials were in the weapons or...
	www.omnology.com /nuclear01.html (18700 words)

	Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason: July 2005 Archives
		But while a dirty bomb is a credible threat for contaminating high-value, densely populated city centres in countries whose populations are wusses about radiation, a sprawling oil field or petrochemical complex is another thing entirely.
		Dirty Bombs: Response to a Threat", estimates that in the case of a cobalt-salted dirty bomb, residents who lived continuously in the contaminated area for forty years after the detonation would have a one in ten chance of death from cancer induced by the radiation.
		With the model cesium bomb, five city blocks would be contaminated at a level which would create a one in a thousand chance of cancer for residents.
	www.fourmilab.ch /fourmilog/archives/Monthly/2005/2005-07.html (5379 words)

	In legal limbo? - The Washington Times: Commentary - June 13, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jose Padilla is a bad man. There seems no mistaking that if even half of what the government says he was plotting to do is true.
		And most of what he is accused of came from his own admission, including the parts about blowing up apartment buildings and making dirty bombs.
		They suggested a regular bomb salted with radiological material instead.
	washingtontimes.com /commentary/20040612-105252-6141r.htm (688 words)

	Reporter - Keay Davidson
		The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source -- antimatter, the eerie "mirror" of ordinary matter -- in future weapons.
		The material is so abundant and easy to obtain, the experts say, that it is almost inevitable that a U.S. city will be the target of a bomb salted with radioactive waste.
		An unexpectedly close race in the campaign to pass a statewide initiative for stem cell research appears to have become a microcosm -- California-size -- of the equally polarized national presidential race.
	www.pelicanfile.com /reporter.cfm?ReporterID=1066 (365 words)

	NucNews - September 5, 2004
		Another leading anti-dirty bomb activist is Rep. Markey of Massachusetts, who frequently assails what he views as the nation's -- and in particular the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's -- sluggish pace in preparing for such a catastrophe.
		The bombed school is located in Zurmat, a troubled district that was once a stronghold of the Taliban and where support for the Islamic militia still exists.
		The failures of the existing system were painfully obvious in the government's confused and contradictory responses after the bombings of two passenger airliners on Aug. 24 and during the siege in Beslan, in the southern republic of North Ossetia.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2004nn/0409nn/040905nn.htm (20643 words)

	DHS \| Department of Homeland Security \| Remarks of General Counsel Joe Whitley to the National College of District ...
		Padilla was allegedly working with al Qaeda to explore the feasibility of setting off a "dirty bomb," a conventional bomb salted with radioactive material, in an American city.
		Americans are threatened as much by the terrorist who pays for a bomb as by the one who pushes the button.
		The Act created a new offense that prohibits knowingly harboring persons who have committed or are about to commit a variety of terrorist offenses, such as: destruction of aircraft; use of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons; use of weapons of mass destruction; bombing of Government property; sabotage of nuclear facilities; and aircraft piracy.
	www.dhs.gov /dhspublic/display?content=1875 (6895 words)

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