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Originally posted by Lavindathar:
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
PS - Your statement that this technology has never been used is slightly incorrect, as citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki can well testify.
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I thought those were Atomic, not nuclear?
I believed there to be a difference, but I stand to be corrected?!?[/QUOTE]Atomic and nuclear are synonymous. Fission and fusion are not.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit with fission bombs (powered by uranium). Modern fission weapons use plutonium, and modern fusion (so-called thermonuclear) weapons have a plutonium bomb as the
trigger.