Pakarang nuklir
hartina
pakarang
nu ngahasilkeun kakuatan ngaruksakna tina
reaksi nuklir
/inti, boh
fisi
atawa
fusi
. Hasilna, pakarang nuklir nu kawilang leutik teh jauh leuwih kuat batan
bom
konvensional pangbadagna, sahingga hiji bom bisa ngancurkeun hiji kota sagemblengna.
Dina
sajarah perang
, pakarang nuklir teh kungsi dipake ukur dua kali, nyaeta dina pamungkasan
Perang Dunya II
. Nu kahiji lumangsung isuk-isuk
6 Agustus
1945
, nalika pesawat
AS
ngaragragkeun "
Little Boy
", bom
uranium
, ka
Hirosima
,
Jepang
. Anu kadua lumangsung tilu poe sanggeusna, nalika AS ngaragragkeun "
Fat Man
", bom
plutonium
, ka kota
Nagasaki
. Dipakena pakarang nu ngabalukarkeun tiwasna 100-200 rebu jalma (malah cenah leuwih) ieu nepi ka kiwari masih jadi kontroversi ? antara jumlah korban sipil anu sakitu lobana jeung eureunna perang. Jejer ieu ngahaneutan deui ku ningkatna kasus
terorisme
nu nelasan rahayat sipil, boh ku pihak nagara atawa lain, nu tujuanana kurang leuwih sarua: nganggeuskeun perang. Pikeun leuwih lengkep ngeunaan ieu padungdengan, mangga aos
Bom atom Hirosima jeung Nagasaki
.
Ti saprak bom Hirosima jeung Nagasaki, pakarang nuklir teh rebuan kali diujicobakeun, di antarana ku AS,
Uni Soviet
,
Inggris
,
Prancis
,
RRC
,
India
, jeung
Pakistan
. Lian ti nagara-nagara eta, aya oge sababaraha nagara nu ngaku boga pakarang nuklir, tapi teu pasti bener/henteuna. Misalna
Israel
, sigana boga program nuklir gede-gedean, sarta boga sahanteuna ratusan hulu ledak nuklir (baca
Israel jeung pakarang pangruksak masal
); sababaraha waktu ka tukang,
Korea Kaler
ngaku boga pakarang nuklir; sedengkeun
Iran
dituduh ku sababaraha nagara Kulon ngembangkeun pakarang nuklir.
Aya dua tipe dasar pakarang nuklir:
- Pakarang nu ngahasilkeun energi ledakna tina reaksi
fisi nuklir
wungkul, nu kawentar disebut
bom atom
. Dina pakarang fisi, massa bahan
fisil
(
uranium nu dibeungharan
atawa
plutonium
) dikemas dina
massa superkritis
?jumlah bahan nu dipikabutuh pikeun
reaksi rantay nuklir
eksponensial
?boh ku jalan nembakkeun hiji bagian bahan subkritis ka nu sejenna, atawa ku jalan ngompres
massa subkritis
ku
bahan peledak
nu dituturkeun ku nyuntikkeun
neutron
pikeun mitambeyan reaksina. Masalah utama dina rancangan pakaang nuklir teh nyaeta dina mastikeun yen suluh nu dipake geus ampir beak samemeh bitu. Jumlah energi nu dileupaskeun ku bom fisi teh kira sapantaran jeung saton nepi ka kira 500
kiloton
TNT
.
- Pakarang nu ngahasilkeun energi ledak tina reaksi
fusi nuklir
, nu kakuatanana bisa leuwih ti sarebu kali bom fisi. Bom nuklir tipe ieu katelah
bom hidrogen
,
bom termonuklir
, atawa
bom fusi
. Nu boga bom tipe ieu sigana mah ukur aya genep nagara: AS,
Rusia
, Prancis, Inggris, RRC, jeung India. Gawena bom hidrogen nuturkeun
rancangan Teller-Ulam
, nu ngabekaskeun bom fisi dina rohangan husus gigireun suluh fusi. Reaksi fusi dimimitian ku
radiasi gamma
jeung
sinar X
tina ledakan fisi nu neken jeung manaskeun kapsul
tritium
,
deuterium
, atawa
litium deuterida
.
Lian ti nu dua eta, aya oge pakarang nuklir tipe sejen, misalna
boosted fission weapon
, nu ngaronjatkeun hasil ledakanana tina reaksi fusi nu jumlahna saeutik, tapi lain kaasup bom hidrogen. Aya oge sababaraha pakarang nu dijieun make rancangan husus:
bom neutron
nu ledakanana relatif leutik, tapi ngabalukarkeun
radiasi
.
Taktik
perang nuklir
mangrupa hiji cara boh pikeun ngayonan atawa pikeun nyegah perang nuklir. Kawijakan nyingkahan kamungkinan serangan pakarang nuklir ti nagara sejen ku jalan ngancam serangan nuklir balesan teh katelah salaku taktik/strategi tameng nuklir (
nuclear deterrence strategy
). Tujuanana nyaeta pikeun miara status serangan kadua (kabisa males serangan nuklir ti luar ku serangan nuklir deui) jeung kamungkinan ngalumpuhkeun seranganana (kabisa nakis jeung ngancurkeun kakuatan nuklir musuh samemeh diserang).
Pakarang nuklir munggaran dijieun di AS, ku kelompok internasional kaasup elmuwan-elmuwan ti
Eropah
tengah kalawan dibantu ku
Inggris
jeung
Kanada
, dina mangsa
Perang Dunya II
salaku bagian tina
Proyek Manhattan
nu dirusiahkeun. Najan tadina mah dijieunna teh alatan sieun kapiheulaan ku
Nazi Jerman
, tapi tungtungna dipake pikeun ngabom dua kota Jepang:
Hirosima jeung Nagasaki
bulan Agustus 1945.
Uni Soviet
ngembangkeun jeung nguji pakarang nuklir nu munggaran taun 1949, nu pangaweruhna mangrupa hasil telik sandina di AS. Boh AS jeung
USSR
lajeng ngembangkeun pakarang nu ditanagaan ku
fusi nuklir
(bom hidrogen) taun
1950-an
. Ku kapanggihna tehnologi
roket
taun 1960-an, pakarang nuklir teh jadi bisa dikirimkeun ka mana wae.
Pakarang nuklir geus jadi lambang kakuatan militer jeung nasional, sedengkeun
uji nuklirna
mindeng dipake pikeun nguji rancangan anyar sakaligus ancaman pulitik. Nagara sejen nu oge ngembangkeun pakarang nuklir, di antarana Inggris, Prancis, jeung Cina. Lima nagara nuklir ieu sapuk pikeun ngawates sumebarna
Proliferasi Nuklir
ka nagara-nagara sejen, najan sigana mah geus aya sababaraha nagara nu kiwari geus boga kakuatan nuklir (India,
Afrika Kidul
,
Pakistan
, jeung
Israel
). Dina pamungkas Perang Tiis awal 1990-an, Federasi Rusia kawarisan pakarang ti USSR, nu salajengna, babarengan jeung AS, nyoba ngurangan cadanganana pikeun kapentingan kasalametan internasional. Najan Proliferasi Nuklir diteruskeun, Pakistan justru nguji coba pakarang nuklir munggaranana taun 1998, sedengkeun Korea Kaler ngaku geus ngembangkeun eta pakarang taun 2004.
Taun kamari,
2005
, aya kira 29.000 pakarang nuklir nu disimpen ku sahanteuna tujuh nagara, tapi lolobana mah (96%) aya di AS jeung Federasi Rusia.
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