Eli5 Do nukes really split an atom to explode?
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Not one atom, lots of atoms. You get a surprising amount of energy by splitting *certain types of* atoms – compared to the other things atoms can do, like chemical reactions – but it’s still an atom-sized bit of energy, so you need lots of atoms to have lots of energy.
You get more energy than you would get from a bomb that used chemical reactions.
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