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Satan Rocket in Soviet Strategic Nuclear Forces Museum, Ukraine Royalty Free Stock Photo

A small hopping creature with multiple legs symbolizes the W and Z bosons responsible for weak nuclear forces as they Royalty Free Stock Photo

A display of pulsating lights representing the energy exchange between the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces Royalty Free Stock Photo

The nuclear force is a force that acts between the protons and neutrons of atoms. Neutrons and protons, both nucleons, are affected by the nuclear force almost identically. Since protons have charge +1 e, they experience an electric force that tends to push them apart, but at short range the attractive nuclear force is strong enough to overcome the electromagnetic force. The nuclear force binds nucleons into atomic nuclei