How exactly does a nuclear bomb work as well as how does it create radiation and destroy so much with such a little action?
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Atoms are held together with a tremendous amount of energy, and splitting them releases all this energy. A single split atom will not do much by itself the way that a tiny drop of boiling water landing on you will not do much, but if you have a ton of them together and can cause a chain reaction where some of the energy that a split atom releases goes into splitting other atoms, then you have enough energy there to do a lot of damage.
Radioactive materials are unstable which makes it easier to split their atoms, so that’s why they’re picked to split. With most/all other elements, you wouldn’t realistically be able to cause a chain reaction because they’re so stable
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