Do you think Humanity Is uknowingly killing itself?

Question

what i mean by that is...I was watching a video in chemistry called Kaboom! and it said at the end, "Will one of these days we invent something that we wish had never been discovered" something along those lines. but you see where i am going. Afterwhich my friend will and i had a conversation about this startling video. We all have heard of the Nuclear Bomb. We are all familiar with its Devastating Effects, i mean just go look on google images and that can even convey the hell it creates. So lets say that a nuclear bomb is...50% energy and the rest is shrapnel and buildings blowing apart creating more flying debris. Now you are wondering "what the hell? 50%? NO, it has to be more than that..." But how much more. Well thats not my point here. So will brings up the idea of the Meeting of Antimatter with Matter which will supposedly be 100% efficient, or 100% energy...100% energy is something i shutter to think about when you consider the condition the earth is in in relation to wars....

Answer 1

It grieves me to think that this is the state of the world my grandchildren have to grow up in.
There are two basic types of nuclear weapons. The first are weapons which produce their explosive energy through nuclear fission reactions alone. These are known colloquially as atomic bombs, A-bombs, or fission bombs. In fission weapons, a mass of fissile material (enriched uranium or plutonium) is assembled into a supercritical mass—the amount of material needed to start an exponentially growing nuclear chain reaction—either by shooting one piece of subcritical material into another (the "gun" method), or by compressing a subcritical sphere of material chemical explosives to many times its original density (the "implosion" method). The latter approach is considered more sophisticated than the former, and only the latter approach can be used if plutonium is the fissile material used.

A major challenge in all nuclear weapon designs is to ensure that a significant fraction of the fuel is consumed before the weapon destroys itself. The amount of energy released by fission bombs can range between the equivalent of less than a ton of TNT upwards to around 500,000 tons (500 kilotons) of TNT.

The second basic type of nuclear weapon produces a large amount of its energy through nuclear fusion reactions, and can be over a thousand times more powerful than fission bombs as fusion reactions release much more energy per unit of mass than fission reactions. These are known as hydrogen bombs, H-bombs, thermonuclear bombs, or fusion bombs. Only six countries—United States, Russia, United Kingdom, People's Republic of China, France, and India—have detonated, or have attempted to detonate, hydrogen bombs.

Hydrogen bombs work by using the energy of a fission bomb in order to compress and heat fusion fuel. In the Teller-Ulam design, which accounts for all multi-megaton yield hydrogen bombs, this is accomplished by initially placing a fission bomb and fusion fuel (tritium, deuterium, or lithium deuteride) are placed in proximity within a special, radiation-reflecting container. When the fission bomb is detonated, gamma and X-rays emitted at the speed of light first compress the fusion fuel, and then heat it to thermonuclear temperatures. The ensuing fusion reaction creates enormous numbers of high-speed neutrons, which then can induce fission in materials which normally are not prone to it, such as depleted uranium. Each of these component is known as a "stage," with the fission bomb as the "primary" and the fusion capsule as the "secondary." In large hydrogen bombs, about half of the yield, and much of the resulting nuclear fallout, comes from the final fissioning of depleted uranium. By chaining together numerous stages with increasing amounts of fusion fuel, thermonuclear weapons can be made to an almost arbitrary yield; the largest ever detonated (the Tsar Bomba of the USSR) released an energy equivalent to over 50 million tons (megatons) of TNT. Most hydrogen bombs are totally considerably smaller than this, though, due to constraints in fitting them into the space and weight requirements of missile warheads.
There are other types of nuclear weapons as well. For example, a boosted fission weapon is a fission bomb which increases its explosive yield through a small amount of fusion reactions, but it is not a hydrogen bomb. In the boosted bomb, the neutrons produced by the fusion reactions serve primarily to increase the efficiency of the fission bomb. Some weapons are designed for special purposes; a neutron bomb is a nuclear weapon that yields a relatively small explosion but a relatively large amount of prompt radiation; such a device could theoretically be used to cause massive casualties while leaving infrastructure mostly intact and creating a minimal amount of fallout. The detonation of a nuclear weapon is accompanied by a blast of neutron radiation. Surrounding a nuclear weapon with suitable materials (such as cobalt or gold) creates a weapon known as a salted bomb. This device can produce exceptionally large quantities of radioactive contamination. Most variety in nuclear weapon design is in different yields of nuclear weapons for different types of purposes, and in manipulating design elements to attempt to make weapons extremely small.

Answer 2

well fisson, or atom bombs, are something like .01% mass/energy efficiency. and fusion, or hydrogen bombs are at .1% mass/energy efficiency. and and antimatter reaction is theorized to have 100% mass/energy efficiency. so.. with that being said, a tiny amount of antimatter, could easily deal enough damage to earth to kill off the human race. on the bright side, the technology used to obtain anti-matter is VERY VERY VERY hard to hide and and they gather it one positron at a time. so the chances that enough of it will fall into the wrong hands anytime soon is almost non-existant

Answer 3

The crime commited by The Great Kazoo that got him banished to the Stone Age to redeem himself by doing good deeds for Fred Flinstone was that he invented a button (which he never intended to push) that, if pushed, would cause litterally *everything* to just disappear. Hmmm.

Answer 4

First of all, No humanity is not unknowingly killing itself. Humanity is fully aware as it is killing itself, but humanity can't stop itself.

Secondly, we are generations away from reaching 100% efficiency in harnessing energy and destructive power. I am not saying it won't happen, but assuming you are 18 now then it won't happen in your lifetime at least.