Because of their lethal power, nuclear weapons are particularly feared, and rightly so. Atomic or hydrogen, the two bombs are often mixed are actually quite different, But in what?

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To date, the only ones to have actually made use of the atomic bomb are the United States during the bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War, nearly 300,000 people perished, but a H-bomb is a completely different beast and potentially much more destructive. According to nuclear experts, it is up to 1,000 times more powerful than a bomb A.

Both weapons use nuclear technology, we then distinguish the "A" bombs that are nuclear fission bombs and the "H" bombs that designate weapons using nuclear fusion, bomb A works by the bursting of heavy atoms, the latter come from unstable material such as uranium 235 or plutonium 239 stored in the bomb; During the reaction, each atom is divided into two generating an enormous amount of energy resulting in heat and a blast effect equivalent to more than 15,000 tons of dynamite, it is this chemical reaction that is channeled into nuclear power plants.

The H-bomb exploits the nuclear fission-fusion process; it is a classic atomic bomb to which one adds another chemical reaction at the end of the chain in order to increase its power tenfold, Its explosion thus proceeds in two stages; first of all, a first part of the bomb will be the scene of a classic atomic explosion, the rise in temperature and the energy released will then trigger nuclear fusion, it consists in fusing nuclei of deuterium and tritium atoms (a heavy version of the simplest atom in the world: hydrogen) to form a nucleus of helium. The reaction, accompanied by an emission of particles, results in the formation of nuclei that are lighter than the sum of the two "parent" nuclei, the excess weight is released in the form of an energy four times greater than that of fission.

So the explosion of the H-bomb is much more powerful than that of the A bomb, the first inspired by the nuclear reactions operated inside our star and which allows us to Illuminate and heat up several tens of millions of kilometers away, they are different, of course, but make no mistake: the two weapons are capable of eradicating all life on Earth.

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