How do they differ in their material makeup, efficiency, scope, scale and destructive power?
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ok, so “atomic” and “nuclear” are basically interchangeable layman’s terms. Hydrogen bombs are a type of nuclear bomb, specifically a fusion bomb.
their are two broad types of nuclear bomb, fission and fusion.
Fission type bombs are the original type created by the Manhattan Project in ww2. they work by “splitting the atom”, taking a large, unstable nucleus like Uranium or Plutonium, and then setting up a chain reaction of those atoms falling apart in a process that lets off a LOT of energy. these are the type used on Hiroshima, but can also be much smaller or bigger depending on the design.
Fusion type weapons work by fusing a small, light element, normally Hydrogen, together into bigger elements, which ALSO releases a lot of energy. The conditions required to make this are pretty extreme, and the normal method of getting them is by *detonating a fission type bomb* to create the energy needed to force the atoms to fuse. all the really powerful bombs are of this type.
that ok as a starter for 10?
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