The Hydrogen Bomb
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| Audience/Grade: | 5 - High School Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Engineering Ethics Nuclear Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Reference - General |
| Media Type: |
Unknown |
| Author(s): |
Organization:Windows to the Universe, UCAR |
| Description: | K-12 website (with beginner, intermediate and advanced) levels on "windows to the universe". This site decribes the first hydrogen bomb explosion on Nov. 1, 1952. "In the Hydrogen bomb the explosion of a nuclear fission charge (atomic bomb) produces the temperature and density necessary for the fusion of Deuterium and Tritium (isotopes of Hydrogen), resulting in a sudden release of a large amount of energy that produces an even bigger explosion." Image caption: The "Ivy Mike" test of the first Hydrogen bomb (1952) |
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| Keywords: | H-bomb hydrogen bomb atomic bomb nuclear explosion nuclear bomb |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(f) Understand professional and ethical responsibility |
| Use of Resource: |
Part of: Windows to the Universe, at http://www.windows.ucar.edu/ |
| Difficulty: |
Easy |
| Interactivity Level: |
Very low |
| Version Info | |
| Publication Date: | October 2000 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/sun/Solar_interior/Nuclear |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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