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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Iranian Scientists Looking at “Nuclear Explosive Yield” for Mostly
Peaceful Bomb
by Jammie
Remember, they’re just developing nuclear capabilities for peaceful
purposes. So hey, why not let them have a bomb?
Iranian scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon
that would produce more than triple the explosive force of the World War II
bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, according to a diagram obtained by The
Associated Press.
The diagram was leaked by officials from a country critical of Iran’s
atomic program to bolster their arguments that Iran’s nuclear program must
be halted before it produces a weapon. The officials provided the diagram
only on condition that they and their country not be named.
The International Atomic Energy Agency — the Vienna-based U.N. nuclear
watchdog — reported last year that it had obtained diagrams indicating that
Iran was calculating the “nuclear explosive yield” of potential weapons.
A senior diplomat who is considered neutral on the issue confirmed that the
graph obtained by the AP was indeed one of those cited by the IAEA in that
report. He spoke only on condition of anonymity because he was not
authorized to discuss the issue.
The IAEA report mentioning the diagrams last year did not give details
of what they showed. But the diagram seen by the AP shows a bell curve —
with variables of time in micro-seconds, and power and energy both in
kilotons — the traditional measurement of the energy output, and hence the
destructive power of nuclear weapons. The curve peaks at just above 50
kilotons at around 2 microseconds, reflecting the full force of the weapon
being modeled. |
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