eli5: How does an H bomb work?

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How does simply splitting one atom expel so much energy? There’s no way that much energy could fit into a hydrogen atom. There’s only one electron, which has the energy. How does one atom make a big explosion?

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H bombs have another name: Thermonuclear bombs.

this name is because the process used is fusion(the start up energy provided by a fission bomb normally) what this bomb is effetively doing is emulating the reaction inside the core of a star for a split second.

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