The difference between an nuclear bomb and a hydrogen bomb.
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There are two ways to generate nuclear energy: fusion and fission. Fission is one large atom breaking into 2 smaller atoms and some neutrons, and Fusion is 2 small atoms forming one larger atom. Both create a lot of excess energy, although fusion creates much more energy than fission (for the most part). A nuclear bomb uses a nuclear reaction to create energy, then uses that energy to make new nuclear reactions, so on and so forth until the entire bomb’s fuel is consumed and the energy creates an explosion. Because fusion bombs (hydrogen bombs are these) are much more efficient than fission bombs (like the ones dropped on Japan), they create much larger explosions.
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