Sentence examples for fission bomb from inspiring English sources
noun
An atomic bomb that uses nuclear fission as a source of energy
- I heard the fission bomb test clearly and I was over a hundred miles away.
"Even a boosted fission bomb produces a yield bigger than this, so we don't think this is a successful test of a boosted fission bomb either," he added.
fission bombThe three most common fission bomb designs, which vary considerably in material and arrangement.
The three most common fission bomb designs, which vary considerably in material and arrangement.
When the inspectors arrived, Iraq was probably within months of producing a fission bomb.
Nor will it stop someone building a crude fission bomb, untested.
Taylor spoke about the possibility that an individual, perhaps an American citizen, could build a fission bomb.
The main form of "Got a Match?" is based on a diagram of the trigger mechanism in a fission bomb.
They've tested the fission bomb, and in September they tested what we believe to be a thermonuclear device.
The idea was to take a very large fission bomb and attach a tube of hydrogen isotopes (deuterium and tritium) to it.
From the very beginning, fear of a fission bomb and its consequences has influenced American thinking about the costs and benefits of possible defenses against nuclear terrorism.
In 1945 American scientists produced the first fission bomb, also called an atomic bomb, which used uncontrolled fission reactions in either uranium or the artificial element plutonium.
