What is a Hydrogen Bomb?
A hydrogen bomb is, by far, the most destructive weapon that mankind has ever invented. It is the most powerful type of nuclear bomb, as much as 25,000 times the yield of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Unlike conventional atom bombs (also known as A-bombs), which release energy by fissioning (breaking apart) heavy atomic nuclei like uranium and plutonium, a hydrogen bomb releases energy by fusing together light nuclei like tritium or deuterium, converting even more matter into energy. When Truman authorized the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he said that the weapons used the same power that the Sun did, but that wasn’t actually true — the Sun uses nuclear fusion, not nuclear fission. Thus, a hydrogen bomb really does release the power that fuels the Sun. The largest nuclear bombs, and the backbone of the nuclear arsenal of the United States and Russia, are hydrogen bombs. These bombs work using a two-stage design whereby a fission bomb “
