How do they differ in their material makeup, efficiency, scope, scale and destructive power?
In: Chemistry
Atomic and nuclear bombs are the same word.
Hydrogen bombs are a subtype of atomic bomb where you don’t just use fission as your energy source, but use that fission to cause hydrogen to fuse at once, which releases much more energy than fission of uranium or plutonium on its own does, as well as not leaving any radioactive isotopes behind.
But since all hydrogen bombs require a prior fission stage, they can’t be totally ‘clean’ just much less radioactive pollution than a regular only fission bomb per size of explosion.
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