Which Countries Have Conducted the Most Nuclear Tests? -- Real Clear Science
Science is the quintessential double-edged sword. Humanity has wielded it to radically improve and extend life, but also to end life. Nowhere is the latter better exemplified than with nuclear weapons.
Originally welded into reality by the legendary scientists of the Manhattan Project, nuclear fission weapons make use of enriched uranium or plutonium to fuel a nuclear chain reaction. Atomic nuclei fly apart, and because of energy-mass equivalence (E = mc2), an enormous amount of energy is released on the order of tens of thousands of tons of TNT.
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