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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Very little energy in one atom.

But bombs are more than one atom. They’re lots of atoms in a chain reaction.

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