What is it?
Weapons based on either:

  • Nuclear fusion of Uranium 235 or Plutonium 239 or,
  • Fusion of atomic cores (e.g. Deuterium or Tritium) to Hydrogen.

Process:
Five primary effects:

  1. Radioactive radiation during the detonation phase
  2. Nuclear, electromagnetic pulse
  3. Blast wave
  4. Heat wave
  5. Local radioactive fallout

Nuclear Warfare

Actions after contamination:

Nuclear particles can be removed from personnel, equipment or vehicles after detonation of a N-weapon.

The nuclear particles have to be bound and removed from the contaminated surface.

They cannot be neutralized

History:

  • Nuclear bomb (N) first tested by the USA
  • Used first and only time in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945
  • First test of the Hydrogen bomb (H) by the USA in 1952
  • USSR 1949 (N), 1953 (H)
  • UK 1952 (N), 1957 (H)
  • France 1960 (N), 1968 (H)
  • China 1964 (N), 1967 (H)
  • India 1974 (N)
  • Pakistan 1998 (N)
  • North Korea 2006 (N) 
  • Signing of Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968 to prevent a further distribution

  • 04/26/1986 Nuclear accident in Chernobyl/USSR

    Decontamination vehicles of OWR were used to decontaminate trucks coming from USSR into Western Europe.

    Effect:

  • Death
  • Birth defects
  • Psychological impact
  • Economic devastation
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