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What are forces?

Basic explanation of what forces are, focussing on the subatomic world and including electromagnetic, weak and strong force.

http://www.quarked.org/askmarks/answer5.html

Intermediate Vector Bosons

The W and Z particles are the massive exchange particles which are involved in the nuclear weak interaction, the weak force between electrons and neutrinos.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/particles/expar.html#c3

Weak Interaction

One of the four fundamental forces, the weak interaction involves the exchange of the intermediate vector bosons, the W and the Z.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/funfor.html#c4

The World of Nuclear Energy

An introduction to nuclear medicine, nuclear reactors, nuclear physics, nuclear power, nuclear waste and war. Includes movie clips of the effects of nuclear detonation.

http://library.thinkquest.org/25916/main_root_index.html

In order to accomplish nuclear fusion, the particles involved must first overcome the electric repulsion to get close enough for the attractive nuclear strong force to take over to fuse the particles.