Hydrogen Bomb
In an atomic bomb uranium or plutonium is split into lighter elements that together weigh less than the original atoms the remainder of the mass appearing as energy.
Hydrogen bomb. Thermonuclear bomb also called hydrogen bomb or h bomb weapon whose enormous explosive power results from an uncontrolled self sustaining chain reaction in which isotopes of hydrogen combine under extremely high temperatures to form helium in a process known as nuclear fusion. When the united states in 1952 detonated the world s first its destructive. A hydrogen bomb or h bomb is a type of nuclear weapon that explodes from the intense energy released by nuclear fusion. In contrast the first test of a thermonuclear weapon or hydrogen bomb in the united states in november 1952 yielded an explosion on the order of 10 000 kilotons of tnt.
Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first generation atomic bombs a more compact size a lower mass or a combination of these benefits. Popularly known as the hydrogen bomb this new weapon was approximately 1 000 times more powerful than conventional nuclear devices. This indirectly results in a greatly increased energy yield i e the bomb s power this type of weapon is referred to as a hydrogen bomb or h bomb because it employs hydrogen fusion. It is the most powerful type of nuclear bomb in some cases reaching more than 2 000 times the yield of the nuclear bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki japan.
A hydrogen bomb has never been used in battle by any country but experts say it has the power to wipe out entire cities and kill significantly more people than the already powerful atomic bomb. The more fuel the bigger the explosion. The energy results from the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen deuterium and tritium. Opponents of development of the hydrogen bomb included j.
A thermonuclear weapon fusion weaponor hydrogen bomb h bomb is a second generation nuclear weapon design. Hydrogen bomb or h bomb weapon deriving a large portion of its energy from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes. A thermonuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon designed to use the heat generated by a fission bomb to compress a nuclear fusion stage.