For one thing the seismic disturbance caused by the explosion was a magnitude 5 1. Experts aren t yet sure whether the notoriously reclusive country has really built and deployed an h bomb. A thermonuclear weapon or hydrogen bomb uses a nuclear fission reaction to ignite a secondary hydrogen fusion reaction that makes greater use of the weapon s atomic fuel typically uranium or.
Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion which means the shock waves blast heat and radiation all have larger reach than an atomic bomb according to edward morse a professor of nuclear. Many of the nuclear scenes from this film including nuclear blasts that did not appear in this film can also be seen in the spectacular film trinity and beyond directed by peter kuran. The hydrogen bomb first tested by the united states and then the soviet union in the early 1950 s uses the heat radiation and pressure of the atomic bomb to force atoms of hydrogen together.
Nuclear explosions can destroy a city and kill most of its people. A nuclear weapon also known as a nuclear bomb or a nuke is a weapon that suddenly releases the energy in the nucleus of certain types of atoms when triggered these devices release a huge amount of energy in the form of a nuclear explosion. In 1953 russia tested a hydrogen bomb that had the power of 1 million tons of tnt.
The first such hydrogen bomb was exploded in 1952 in the marshall islands. After the dropping of the atomic bomb a few countries started developing a more powerful nuclear weapon called the hydrogen bomb. 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.
A thermonuclear weapon fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb h bomb is a second generation nuclear weapon design 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 characteristics of nuclear fusion reactions make possible the use of non fissile depleted uranium as the. In other words an atomic bomb can be used as a trigger for a hydrogen bomb. In a nutshell an atomic bomb is a fission device while a hydrogen bomb uses fission to power a fusion reaction.
A hydrogen bomb and an atomic bomb are both types of nuclear weapons but the two devices are very different from each other.
