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อาวุธนิวเคลียร์
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explosive device that gets its destructive force from nuclear reactions
AI overview
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that uses nuclear reactions—the splitting or combining of atoms—to create enormous destructive force. These weapons matter because they can cause unprecedented damage over vast areas, making them central to international security concerns and global politics.
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Research
3,396 papers- International security: what nuclear weapon states have not learnt in 75 years.Medicine, conflict, and survival · 2020Birch M, van Bergen LDOI: 10.1080/13623699.2020.1812799
- Nuclear bomb and public health.ReviewJournal of public health policy · 2023Xu S, Dodt ADOI: 10.1057/s41271-023-00420-x
- Vertical nuclear proliferation.Medicine, conflict, and survival · 2007Sidel VWDOI: 10.1080/13623690701596635
- Modeling Fallout from Nuclear Weapon Detonations: Efficient Activity and Dose Calculation of Radionuclides and Their Progeny.Health physics · 2024van Dijk A, de Bode M, Kloosterman A et al.DOI: 10.1097/HP.0000000000001834
- Public Health Decision Making in the Case of the Use of a Nuclear Weapon.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Długosz-Lisiecka MDOI: 10.3390/ijerph191912766
- Nuclear Weapons Kill People Even When Not Used.American journal of public health · 2024Samet JMDOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2024.307829
- Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us.La Tunisie medicale · 2025Abbasi K, Ali P, Barbour V et al.DOI: 10.62438/tunismed.v103i6.6095
- Attending to the threat of nuclear weapons.Lancet (London, England) · 2021The LancetDOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01792-X
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