By Katja Grace, 27 February 2015 When nuclear weapons were first built, the explosive power you could extract from a tonne of explosive skyrocketed. But why? Here's a guess. Until nuclear weapons, explosives were based on chemical reactions. Whereas nuclear weapons are based on nuclear reactions. As you can see from the below table of specific energies and energy densities I got (and innocuously shortened) from
What's up with nuclear weapons?
What's up with nuclear weapons?
What's up with nuclear weapons?
By Katja Grace, 27 February 2015 When nuclear weapons were first built, the explosive power you could extract from a tonne of explosive skyrocketed. But why? Here's a guess. Until nuclear weapons, explosives were based on chemical reactions. Whereas nuclear weapons are based on nuclear reactions. As you can see from the below table of specific energies and energy densities I got (and innocuously shortened) from