Nuclear weapon
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A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from a nuclear reaction releasing vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter; a modern thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than a ton can produce an explosion comparable to the detonation of more than a billion kilograms of conventional high explosive.
Since their public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons and their potential effects have been a recurring motif in popular culture, to the extent that the decades of the Cold War are often referred to as the "atomic age".
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See also
- Atomic age
- "Atomic Dog", a song by George Clinton
- "Atomic Bomb", a song by William Onyeabor
- Atomic age
- Bomb Culture
- Nuclear holocaust
- Nuclear optimism
- World War III in popular culture
- Survivalism/Survivalism in fiction
- Hiroshima
- Mushroom cloud
- Mutual assured destruction
- We begin bombing in five minutes
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