The energy release from nuclear fission and fusion, compared to the same mass of chemical reactants, is 2.5 million times and 10 million times greater respectively. One kilogram of uranium-235 is equivalent to 2500 tons of coal, and one kilogram of deuterium and tritium is equivalent to 10,000 tons of coal.
Since their inception, nuclear weapons have become a shadow looming over Earth.
No weapon can instill such fear and threat in humanity, and even under mutual nuclear deterrence, has laid the groundwork for long-lasting human peace.
Countless novels, movies, and documentaries depict the horrors of nuclear weapons and nuclear war, and in people's minds, nuclear weapons have subtly become synonymous with doomsday. If there's any fear greater than that of the Evil God, it is unquestionably that of nuclear weapons.
When flyers warning of nuclear strikes scattered to the ground, this deathly still city began to boil.
