Nuclear weapon

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  An infographic looking at what a nuclear weapon is and what is main dangers could be.
  
  A nuclear weapon is a device that uses a nuclear reaction to create an explosion. This explosion is much more powerful than that of conventional explosives (like TNT). When a nuclear weapon explodes, it gives off four types of energy: a blast wave, intense light, heat, and radiation. Nuclear weapons can be in the form of bombs or missiles.When a nuclear weapon explodes, a large fireball is created. Everything inside of this fireball vaporizes and is carried upward. This creates a mushroom-shaped cloud. The material in the cloud cools into dust-like particles and drops back to the earth as fallout. Fallout can be carried by the wind and can end up miles from the site of the explosion. Fallout is radioactive and can contaminate anything it lands on.
  
  http://emergency.cdc.gov/radiation
  
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  infographic_nuclear_weapon.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Nuclear Weapons Radiation Dosage Radioactive Fallout Radioactive Hazard Release
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 poster
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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