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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Hydrogen bombs do not split an atom. They are actually creating a helium atoms through the fusion of two hydrogen atoms. And because the helium molecule has less binding energy than the hydrogen atoms, there’s a release of energy when the reaction happens

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