• Question: What is the most explosive radioactive bomb

    Asked by anon-217527 to Philippe on 8 Jun 2019.
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      Philippe Gambron answered on 8 Jun 2019:


      It is the hydrogen bomb.

      “Regular” bombs, like the ones that were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, work by breaking large atoms, such as uranium and plutonium, into smaller ones.

      The hydrogen bomb is even more powerful. It works by combining small atoms to produce larger ones. In this case, hydrogen atoms (or rather some cousins of it with more neutrons) turn into helium. This is also what happens in the Sun.

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