Sailor 2.0
Nuclear Weapons
by: MC3 Taylor Stinson
“Anything from Hiroshima to james bond
may come to mind when you think of nuclear weapons. At any rate, extreme danger always enters the picture. There is nothing soothing about these deadly pieces of machinery but this information will hopefully pull back a little of the cloak from their mystique.” sources: http://www.brookings.edu/projects/archive/nucweapons/50.aspx http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/armex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX63.html http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat
What’s are nuclear weapons? ATOMIC BOMBS
HydrogEn BOMBS
America’s largest test bomb
bravo a 15 megaton bomb
it started with... the MANHATTAN PROJECT when the first atomic bomb was developed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physics professor from Berkeley & his team.
since 1951 America has built
67,500
top countries with highest nuclear weapons
1 4 11 7
nuclear missiles, which is equivalent to 1,144 a year
Number of us nuclear bombs lost and not recovered
!
1 megaton is the equivalent to the power of 1,000,000 tons of TNT.
3 6 9
United States
France
Gross Domestic Product: $2.513 trillion
Gross Domestic Product: $15.685 trillion
Gross Domestic Product: $2.254 trillion
Operational & strategic weapons: 2,430
Operational & strategic weapons: 1,950
Operational & strategic weapons: 290
Total arsenal: 10,000
Total arsenal: 8,500
Total arsenal: 300
China
United Kingdom
pakistan
Gross Domestic Product: $12.405 trillion Operational & strategic weapons: 0 Total arsenal: 240
EDUCATIONAL NOTE
2 5 8
RUSSIA
India Gross Domestic Product: $4.711 trillion Operational & strategic weapons: 0 Total arsenal: 80-100
Gross Domestic Product: $2.316 trillion Operational & strategic weapons: 160 Total arsenal: 225
Israel Gross Domestic Product: $248.719 billion Operational & strategic weapons: 0 Total arsenal: 80
Gross Domestic Product: $514.559 billion Operational & strategic weapons: 0 Total arsenal: 90-100
north korea Gross Domestic Product: $40 billion Operational & strategic weapons: 0 Total arsenal: less than 10