HISTORY OF SCIENCE -PART 3 MODERN WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

• Part 1 History of science - The main event
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My previous post i talked about the harms and effects of Science and technology to human,Also earth in general. today i will love us to take a look about some modern advanced weapons.

War weapons used before 19,20 and 21 century is considered an ancient weapon dating back to the Middle age weapons
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Middle ages before the modern days weapon weapons of the 16 to 18 century
before the middle days and the
modern day weapon

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What are weapons

Well weapons are Structure or tools build and designed to cause physical damage and bodily inflicting harms.

Also a weapon determines the outcome of a battle or war. It makes one gain advantage or to defend its territory properly with out the fear of losing the battle.

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Weapons have been in existence during the biblical era and also a peak at the theological era of God and Lucifer.

Weapons have Drastically metamorphose __From stone and wood to different metals,to modern synthetic materials such as plastics.

For thousands of years Weapons serve many purposes in society including use in sports,like the Romans Gladiator contest

Weapons have been in use for several cases such as criminal activity, self-defense, law enforcement,welfare and hunting.

In general thoughts, we can see weapons as a defensive tools. technology has developed throughout history, weapons have changed with its creations and with its uses, This days Weapons are created for world power and to show supremacy to other countries, each country brandishing its nuclear weapons

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They are varieties of weapons and fire arms Like

• Scoped M1 Garand,
• a common battle rifle.
• An AK-74,
• a typical assault rifle.RPK-74.
• M40 rifle.
• Thompson submachine gun, commonly associated with American gangsters.
• Kimber Custom TLE II M1911 pistol.
• M79 grenade launcher.
• Fighter jets and bombers
  And lots of destructive weapons. a little peek at the 20 century modern weapons

But nuclear weapons tends To be the leading of it all and its tagged among modern weapons of mass destruction

Some other weapons of mass destruction are

• radiological

• chemical

• biological

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Types of nuclear weapons

• The Atomic Bomb

The large amount of nuclear energy that is released by this process produces a large amount of heat and electricity.
Nuclear energy is measured in yield
But atomic bomb is not that powerful in the nuclear line up as there are much larger energy to out way the yield energy it releases, Thermonuclear also known as H-BOMB (hydrogen bomb) is by far dangerous and a thousand time disastrous than the atomic bombs which is as little as one kilo tone (KT) . Nuclear energy is expressed in tons (TNT) but measured in yield.
They are expressed in millions of tons of TNT or megatons (MT).

The U.S. is the only country to have used an atomic bomb in war — the first, nicknamed Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 with a yield of 15 KT and the second, Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on Aug. 9, 1945 with a yield of 20 KT.

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Thermonuclear Weapons

Like the atomic bombs, the explosion of an H-bomb produces a blast because of the amount of TNT released from the amount of nuclear energies, and this can destroys structures rapidly within a radius of several miles.
The heavy and extreme heats generated from the blast can cause a spark of firestorms and intense bright light that can cause blindness.
The energy release through this Radioactive fallout,if release into the environment of highly unstable fragments of fission such as cesium-137 and strontium-90, can cause contamination of air, water,soil and poisoning of living creatures that might last hundreds of years before totally cleaning up .

Thermonuclear weapons also known as H bomb is no doubt an extremely explosive and the explosiveness is gotten through a process of nuclear fission.

Nuclear fission is a process of forming a heavier nucleus from two lighter ones. (Nuclei of the hydrogen isotopes tritium or deuterium are fused.) This fusion requires incredibly high temperatures. They are nearly all achieved through the initial detonation of an atomic bomb.

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Hydrogen bombs are thousand times deadlier and more powerful than atomic bomb, very expensive and a lot difficult to create.
measured in yield to megatons of TNT they can be designed so small in like manner to fit into an artillery ballistic missile.

In 1952, the U.S. was the first nation to successfully test a 10 MT fusion bomb.

Little amount of Thermonuclear weapons are called neutron bombs, an enhanced radiation that can be used effectively against tanks and infantry by releasing a high amount of radiation with just a minimal blast.

Dirty Bombs

Also known as radiological weapons.
Dirty bombs are considered a non-nuclear weapon because of their radioactivity, once detonated, it spreads radioactive materials.

Dirty bombs also can not be considered as a mass weapon of destruction cause the radioactive material release is what contaminates the area.
Dirty bomb psychologically affects its victims than physical. it creates and invite panic cause of the economical loss and severe economic consequences due to costly clean up.
Sometimes It can be difficult to clean up the contaminated area due to such nuclear waste can render an area uninhabitable for decades.

Dirty bombs explosive is likely to cause more severe damage than any radiation poisoning due to the low levels of radiation present in the bomb.

The use of radiological weapons would result in so much death not cause of high energy heat explosion like of the nuclear weapons, but possibly acute health threat/stress- and anxiety-induced heart attacks.

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The term dirty bomb also refers to any nuclear weapon that generates a lot of radioactive waste, such as early nuclear weapons.Some nuclear weapons are even designed to include elements such as cobalt that deliberately create long-lasting nuclear fallout when detonated.

Building a dirty bomb is not that of a difficult task but getting the radioactive material is and that's where the main possible efforts lies. The most deadly materials in creating a dirty bomb is the uranium but very expensive and hard to obtain.

Nuclear status and statistics

Nuclear weapons are also categorized by their destructive force and use into two groups: strategic weapons and tactical weapons

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The fate of the world future weapon

In the far future there would be a more advanced weapon to combat evil or weapons to start evil as this is always the case of weapon creation,
As 2050 approaches, infantry from advanced forces will also become harder to kill.
The vest and helmets wore by soldiers today covers only 16 percent of the body,
But as gear lightens in the years ahead, Efforts under way to make bullet cases with polymers rather than brass should cut the weight of a soldier’s ammo by a third.
and also even the armors it's self would be so advanced that it would become lighter as some engineers.

Engineers at Moratex, a research institute in Lodz, Poland, are developing a “non-Newtonian fluid” that becomes viscous enough when struck to stop a bullet. These “shear-thickening” fluids are lighter and more exible than the Kevlar and ceramic plates used today.

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military with more advanced technology will be fully encased in powered, bullet-proof exoskeletons.
And part from that robotic base soldiers that will be able to. shoot lasers would be created and this will no doubt look frustrated to kill soldiers as robots increasingly take their place in the air, on land and at sea.
“Iron Man” suit being prototyped by the US Special Operations Command,will eventually integrate to weaponry to. monitor a soldier’s condition and give him superhuman strength.

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But the best and dangerous part of the future weapon technology and invention is the satellite 📡, This is by far the most dangerous of all weapons that would be invented in the near future.

Its already happening as anti-satellite (ASAT) technology will be ready to shoot down any US satellite weapons threats.

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Pray for the earth-cause they have money for wars but they can't feed the poor.

Bibliography

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• Mandatory.com

• spacenews.com

• www.pbs.org

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