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