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Parent topics

• Nuclear weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World War II [r]: (1931–1945) global war killing 53 million people, with the "Allies" (UK, US, Soviet Union) eventually halting aggressive expansion by the "Axis" (Nazi Germany and Japan). ^[e]
• Manhattan Project [r]: Code name for the U.S. nuclear weapon development program in the World War II ^[e]

Subtopics

• Los Alamos National Laboratory [r]: A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory located in Los Alamos, New Mexico and originally the development and construction center of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project for use by the United States of America in World War II. ^[e]
• Fission device [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fusion device [r]: An explosive device, whether used as a weapon or for other purposes, which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy by combining atomic nuclei ^[e]
• Nuclear fission [r]: A reaction by which a nucleus of a suitable isotope of an element with a high atomic number splits into two nuclei of lower atomic numbers and one or more neutrons and a relatively large release of energy per atom. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Fat Man (nuclear weapon) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• TNT equivalent [r]: A unit of energy commonly used to quantify the energy released (or "yielded") in explosions. ^[e]