Do all atoms have these massive amounts of potential energy or are there specific atoms used in these bombs?
In: Chemistry
Well yes. Sort of. It’s all relative.
If your body reacted with a cluster of antimatter roughly the same mass as your body, the resulting explosion would probably be bigger than any nuclear weapon we’ve ever seen.
But, to do that, you would need to find a lot of antimatter. Good luck with that. Antimatter practically doesn’t exist at all, because the instant it comes into existence it tends to be annihilated by naturally reacting with matter.
But speaking purely in terms of how nuclear weapons work… not any way that we could conceive. Nuclear weapons work by either splitting very heavy atoms like uranium or by fusing extremely light ones like hydrogen. Our bodies have a lot of elements that are neither heavy nor light enough to do either of those things with.
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