Aug 13 2009, 12:28 AM
QUOTE(joe_star @ Aug 13 2009, 12:05 AM)
Iinm a Hydrogen Bomb actually acheives some kinda uncontrolled nuclear fusion at the center of the blast, making it much much more powerful than an atomic bomb, where you just have a runaway fission reaction. Can someone verify this?
The standard nuclear/atom bomb is simply a fission bomb. Whereas the hydrogen bomb is actually a mixture. The one it is the Teller-Ulam design. It consist of 3 stages. Fission - Fusion - Fission/Fusion. A standard fission bomb is detonated from where the energy is used to trigger a fusion reaction. Energy from there is the bulk of the yield. A third stage provides more firepower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller%E2%80%93Ulam_design
Doomsday bomb certainly this is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
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