A nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)
1As confidence in the plutonium bomb design grew it was decided not to use Jumbo.
2The plutonium bomb worked by compressing the plutonium into a critical mass which sustains a chain reaction.
3Three days later, a plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 80,000.
4The Nagasaki weapon was a plutonium bomb, similar to the Trinity device, and it was nicknamed Fat Man.
5Now Lina was asking Stanley about his work in Japan; Hiroshima was a uranium bomb and Nagasaki a plutonium bomb.
6Project leaders decided a test of the plutonium bomb was essential before it could be used as a weapon of war.
7In addition, thousands more suffered from radiation poisoning when the United States dropped a uranium and a plutonium bomb on the island in 1945.
8At 11:02am on August 9th 1945 a US B-29 bomber dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki, killing about 74 thousand people.
9Three days after that attack on Hiroshima, the US dropped a plutonium bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing about 80,000 people.
10Fuel for North Korea's plutonium bombs has been made in a reactor that is large and easily monitored.
11Then he'd designed the reactor at Khushab that produced fuel to move to the next level- aplutoniumbomb.
12Just one small query - was the bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 an atomic bomb or a Plutonium bomb?
13The isolated east Asian state is believed to have tested plutonium bombs in its previous two such blasts, in 2006 and 2009.
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