What is the difference between an atom bomb and a hydrogen bomb? Which one is more powerful?
The difference between the two is that a typical atom bomb only uses fission only as the means of energy generation. This entails breaking a larger atom into a smaller ones in a reaction that continues at a rapid self-sustaining pace. A hydrogen bomb uses an atom bomb in the middle to set off a fusionable product surrounding it (like hydrogen, helium, tritium etc). This reaction then often sets off further fission reactions in an outer casing of potentially fissionable material like U-238 (this normally doesn’t fission on it’s own). So in effect it’s a Fission-Fusion-Fission device. The power of these devices is somewhat scaleable, with a minimum yield and for fusion bombs anyway a near limitless output only constrained by the design and materials. So while there can be some overlap (you can “boost” conventional fission bombs often by injecting something like tritium into the core) hydrogen bombs are alot more powerful for the bang, they also tend to be somewhat cleaner per unit of out
The Hydrogen Bomb is over 1000 times stronger then the Atom Bomb. The H-Bomb actually leaves behind no radiation and the activation energy is tremendous! The A-Bomb leaves behind massive after effect, and requires a significant less amount of energy to occur. The H-Bomb running on Nuclear Fusion when activated uses so much energy that it can reach million of degrees in split seconds. The nuclear clean up is nothing on these bombs with no after effect the immediate effect however can kill believe it or not millions instantly anyone with a 400 mile radius of the bomb with high probability could be killed. This bomb has still not been perfected.
