Are you having a bad day in the office, are you are pissed off your boss, colleagues
or maybe your enemies.
You just feel like burning your opponents
to ashes?
Then you are at the right place!
In this video I am going to teach you how
to make a nuclear bomb.
Let’s get started!
It is indeed possible to make your own weapon
of mass destruction as long as you find few
pounds of fissile material like Plutonium
on ebay.
So before going on shopping for ingredients
required for nuclear bomb, let’s just get
some know-how about it.
In 1905 when Albert Einstein came up with
this most famous equation E = MC2, what Einstein
really meant was everything around us is nothing
but energy in different forms.
So it is possible to convert this matter to
energy and visa versa.
Matter is just a condensed version of energy.
We can picture this by thinking about water
and steam.
You heat up water and it becomes steam, you
further cool it down and it becomes water
again.
It takes lot of steam to get few drops of
water, but only few litres of water to get
room full of steam.
Same is true in the case of atomic bomb used
to destroy Hiroshima, which required only
600 milligrams of uranium, less than the weight
of a dime.
Only 600 milligrams of uranium generated energy
which killed 140,000 people!
Converting matter to energy is tricky.
The Sun does it naturally using a process
called fusion.
The Sun, which is a huge sphere of mostly
hydrogen gas, has intense pressure and heat
at the core.
This heat and pressure causes the hydrogen
atom to fuse together to create helium and
release energy.
But creating such environment on earth is
not easy.
So atomic bomb uses another process called
fission.
Instead of fusing atoms together, in fission
reaction process they are split into pieces.
For example when a neutron hits an atom of
a radioactive fissile material like uranium,
the uranium atom splits into two smaller atoms
and some energy is released.
And if right type of uranium is used the split
will produce more neutrons capable of splitting
other uranium atoms.
This continuous process is called a chain
reaction.
If this reaction is in controlled level the
energy produced is also in a controlled manner.
This is what happens in the nuclear power
plant, where this controlled energy is used
to generate electricity.
If the reaction is uncontrolled we get a nuclear
explosion.
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So now you know the basics let’s get to
the ingredients we’ll require.
To fuel the atomic bomb uranium 235 or plutonium
239 can be used.
These materials are highly radioactive which
means they constantly shred neutrons require
to split atom and generate energy.
But these materials must be held in a compressed
state long enough before explosion.
There are two approaches for doing this.
The first one is the Gun method.
The gun is considered the simplest way to
build nuclear weapon.
The weapon consists of a tube, in which one
half of the nuclear charge is fixed at one
end and the other half is at the opposite
end.
An explosive is placed behind the other half
nuclear material.
When the explosive is detonated, the nuclear
charge races down to the other end.
Once these two halves meet, the chain reaction
starts and the explosion takes place.
The second approach is the implosion method.
In this approach the nuclear fuel is shaped
into a sphere called the pit and the explosives
are placed around it.
When these explosives are detonated the force
squeezes the pit and explosion takes place.
The explosives should be placed in such a
manner that the shock waves generated should
be precisely spherical in shape and should
be detonated at the same time.
These design also require an initiator to
flood the pit with neutrons during detonation.
With this information you can easily make
a nuclear bomb in your basement.
Infact having a Ph.D in physics with no experience
on nuclear weapons is enough make weapons
of mass destruction.
The only problem is to get proper material
that is Uranium 235 or Plutonium 239.
With the International Atomic Energy Agency
keeping track on nuclear materials, it becomes
very difficult to get hands on them.
So once you dodge them, make your own weapon
and happy bombing!
Hope you like this video.
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I of-course, this is the narrator speaking,
I am Tristan from step back history and to
take a historical angle on this if you click
on the button here you'll be taken to my video.
Where I talk about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki
bombings from a historian's point of view.
Was it essential? was it ethical? and what
should we make of it today as historians.
Stay happy if you can in a nuclear situation
and stay curious.
