Nuclear weapon
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A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from a nuclear reaction releasing vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter; a modern thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than a ton can produce an explosion comparable to the detonation of more than a billion kilograms of conventional high explosive.
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See also
- Bomb Culture
- "Atomic Dog", a song by George Clinton
- "Atomic Bomb", a song by William Onyeabor
- Hiroshima
- Mushroom cloud
- Mutual assured destruction
- We begin bombing in five minutes
- Atomic age
- List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
- List of nuclear holocaust fiction
- Nuclear holocaust
- Nuclear optimism
- Survivalism/Survivalism in fiction
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