Salted Nukes: An Even More Dangerous Bomb

Nuclear weapons are the most destructive things we’ve ever created, but it turns out there’s a way to make them even deadlier…

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Sources:
http://www.businessinsider.com/moab-not-biggest-non-nuclear-explosion-2017-4
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Salted Bombs

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/Szilard.shtml
https://news.vice.com/article/yes-north-korea-probably-tested-an-h-bomb-just-not-the-kind-youre-thinking-of
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Timeline/Time1950.shtml
http://www.dw.com/en/detonating-a-thermonuclear-bomb/a-18963316

How does a Nuclear Bomb work ?

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Castle.html
https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/tsar-bomba
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170816-the-monster-atomic-bomb-that-was-too-big-to-use
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph241/wessells1/
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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Nuclear/betaex.html
https://www.brookings.edu/research/50-facts-about-u-s-nuclear-weapons-today/
Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leo_Szilard.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B53_bomb.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fission_bomb_assembly_methods.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cobalt-60.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W76.gif