Why do nuclear bombs explode mid air?

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I’ve always wondered why only nuclear bombs detonate before hitting the ground and not the actual moment of impact. Does it affect the amount of damage? or does it reduce nuclear waste and radiation?

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Well one thing also is that a nuclear explosion is not triggered by impact . Some bombs are designed to blow up on impact the impact triggers the explosion

Nuclear explosions are not triggered by an impact. You could drop a nulcear bomb from a plane and it could hit the ground and nothing would happen

There needs to be a specific trigger to denonate it , if the bomb hits the ground it could destroy the bomb and it wouldn’t actually trigger it would hit the ground and break apart and not exploid

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