Weapons of Mass Destruction ?

Question

1. What is the main property of an Atomic bomb being a weapon of mass destruction?

When I mean property of a Atomic Bomb I mean the key feature what makes it a weapon of mass destruction.

In order of what I say makes it is:

#Shock wave that the explosion lets of flattening a wide range of land

#Explosion due to the chemical reaction

#Gives of Radiation

#Imitates the Sun for split second Blinding anyone in sight and very hot

Which one is its main property

2. Also is the radiation due to it giving off UV rays like the sun does but the planet is protected from by the magnetic field and an Atomic bomb is under the atmosphere if so why doesn't the UV rays spread worldwide?

Answer 1

most explosives have a devastating effects on their surroundings due to their highly intense shockwaves ..

But for an atomic or nuclear bomb it is their radiation...though not of the visible or of infrared...but of higher frequency...uv and gamma...mostly..cause a genetic decomposition type of reaction and lead to uncurable mutations in almost all the organisms in its effective radius ..which happens to be in hundreds of miles...

now that is mass mutation..

answer to the second part lies with the torch light that you have in your house...

radiations all are electromagnetic waves

they have a rectilinear motion

  

Answer 2

The main is probably the explosion, which leads to the shock wave. The light isn't really a factor. The heat wave is.

Finally, the UV it gives off is minimal, compared to the gamma radiation.

Answer 3

uranium

you should watch the movie white light black rain a documentary of the a bomb "little boy" dropped on hiroshima.

atomic bomb looks more like a torpedo the agent responsible for all that burning and fire is uranium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bomb...

check out the "the bombing" section it explains how the abomb works and the damage it creates.

anyone who survives an abomb attack will 99% of the time have a residual side affect and will most likely develope leukemia or another cancer.

Answer 4

The property that makes it a weapon of mass destruction is that it is a really really big explosion that is capable of killing thousands of people at once and causing mass damage to wide areas.  Those effects you mention are incidental to the definition, and no one effect leads to a nuclear weapon being labeled a WMD.  

For example, if one could devise a high explosive with an equivalent energy yield per unit mass that was perhaps 10,000 times greater than RDX, so that a 10 kiloton bomb weighed only 1 ton, and could be delivered by an aircraft, that large conventional explosive weapon would get labeled a WMD even though it were not nuclear and the only effect it would have would be the blast.  Similarly, a 500-lb bomb containing 200-lbs of anthrax spores would be labeled a WMD, since it has the ability to kills thousands of people even though the physical damage would not be horrific.

In short, the defining characteristic of a WMD is its ability to cause widespread death and/or destruction by *any* means and is not specific to any one effect that it produces.  

As to part 2, the energy flux from high energy radiation from a nuclear blast decreases as the inverse of the square of the distance from the blast.  Also, light travels in straight lines, so once you get below the sight line of a blast, the radiation propagates out to space.  The gamma/UV light produced either becomes too weak to cause damage or doesn't penetration through the limb of the Earth after about 20 miles or so (depending on the altitude of the burst).  That prevents it from spreading worldwide.

Answer 5

your cool!!