The bomb pulse is the sudden increase of carbon-14 (14C) in the Earth's atmosphere due to the hundreds of aboveground nuclear bombs tests that started... 17 KB (2,065 words) - 21:19, 3 January 2024 |
An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), also referred to as a transient electromagnetic disturbance (TED), is a brief burst of electromagnetic energy. The origin... 29 KB (3,540 words) - 18:52, 4 April 2024 |
Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) (redirect from To Mars By A-Bomb (film)) 000 pulse units under the original design and an Isp of perhaps 4,000 to 6,000 seconds according to the Air Force plan, with a later 1968 fusion bomb proposal... 59 KB (7,219 words) - 17:28, 21 April 2024 |
Effects of nuclear explosions (redirect from Effects of nuclear bomb) explosion's flash energy. The thermal pulse also is responsible for warming the atmospheric nitrogen close to the bomb and causing the creation of atmospheric... 61 KB (7,439 words) - 07:05, 24 April 2024 |
in atmospheric carbon-14 is that this has enabled some options (e.g., bomb-pulse dating) for determining the birth year of an individual, in particular... 38 KB (4,190 words) - 18:49, 26 April 2024 |
Nuclear pulse propulsion or external pulsed plasma propulsion is a hypothetical method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust... 27 KB (2,922 words) - 14:48, 27 April 2024 |
A nuclear electromagnetic pulse (nuclear EMP or NEMP) is a burst of electromagnetic radiation created by a nuclear explosion. The resulting rapidly varying... 77 KB (8,626 words) - 08:52, 25 March 2024 |
radiation pulse energy which is composed of both gamma rays and neutrons is approximately 5% of the entire energy released; in neutron bombs, it would... 63 KB (6,668 words) - 19:16, 14 April 2024 |
Adam Bomb (born Adam Brenner, 14 August 1963) is an American guitarist who worked with artists like TKO, Black 'N Blue, Steel Pulse, John Paul Jones, and... 6 KB (610 words) - 18:02, 21 August 2023 |
A pulsejet engine (or pulse jet) is a type of jet engine in which combustion occurs in pulses. A pulsejet engine can be made with few or no moving parts... 25 KB (3,456 words) - 16:00, 13 April 2024 |
Nuclear weapon (redirect from Atomic bomb) fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb types release large... 114 KB (12,992 words) - 23:06, 22 April 2024 |
A graphite bomb is intended to be a non-lethal weapon used to disable an electrical grid. The bomb works by spreading a dense cloud of extremely fine... 5 KB (596 words) - 14:14, 12 April 2024 |
Radiocarbon dating (redirect from Bomb curve) for the southern hemisphere. The level has since dropped, as this bomb pulse or "bomb carbon" (as it is sometimes called) percolates into the rest of the... 104 KB (13,848 words) - 01:40, 25 April 2024 |
Tsar Bomba (redirect from Russian monster bomb) ˈbombə], lit. 'Tsar bomb'; code name: Ivan or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful... 62 KB (7,242 words) - 12:55, 25 April 2024 |
burning, which causes the famous trail of flame seen on the V-1 flying bomb and other pulse jets. Even while inside the engine, the mixture's volume is constantly... 10 KB (1,248 words) - 13:09, 19 April 2024 |
pig "Stu" The V1 – a replica of the engine of a World War II V1 flying bomb pulse jet Wheelocopter – a spinning machine which applies the principles of... 21 KB (2,042 words) - 04:14, 4 April 2024 |
1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (redirect from Goldsboro nuclear bomb) A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3.8-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The pilot... 50 KB (6,422 words) - 23:40, 22 April 2024 |
concentrations of non-structural carbon and uses bomb pulse approaches to understand the age of this carbon. Bomb pulse refers to the rapid rise, sharp peak and... 6 KB (767 words) - 18:56, 16 May 2023 |
A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both... 41 KB (4,831 words) - 18:19, 1 March 2024 |
Flugbombe V-1 (V-1 flying bomb) – pulse-jet engine powered flying bomb carrying high-explosive warhead known to the Allies as the "buzz bomb". Flugzeug – aircraft... 112 KB (13,939 words) - 08:51, 27 March 2024 |
submitted a design to the Luftwaffe for a flying bomb. It was an innovative design that used a pulse-jet engine, while previous work dating back to 1915... 82 KB (10,630 words) - 21:24, 26 April 2024 |
Starfish Prime (redirect from Rainbow Bomb) Thor missile from Johnston Atoll. Starfish Prime caused an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that was far larger than expected, so much larger that it drove much... 23 KB (2,665 words) - 18:23, 24 April 2024 |
10Kh (redirect from Chelomey Gliding bomb) of Soviet Union pulse jet engine powered air-launched cruise missiles, reverse engineered from the Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1) flying bomb, developed in the... 8 KB (653 words) - 05:47, 9 March 2024 |
Typical nuclear pulse propulsion has the downside that the minimal size of the engine is defined by the minimal size of the nuclear bombs used to create... 12 KB (1,495 words) - 16:01, 22 April 2024 |
Improvised explosive device (redirect from Roadside bomb) An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional... 96 KB (9,562 words) - 03:38, 28 April 2024 |