Different Atomic And Nuclear Bombs: Here's The Explanation

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YOGYAKARTA - The use of the term Nuclear Bomb and Atomic Bombs is sometimes misinterpreted by some people. Let's find out different atomic and nuclear bombs!

Nuclear Bombs and Atomic Bombs in interpretation can be referred to as parts related to atomic nuclei.

Also, the opposite of nuclear energy itself is that the resulting energy is sourced in the interparticle reaction inside the atomic nucleus.

Over time, countries around the world began to make it a military weapon. With its very risky consequences and effects, the international community has banned nuclear use as a military weapon.

After that, there began to arise many problems regarding the comparison of nuclear bombs with atomic bombs.

Both in terms of composition to the resulting result.

In some of the literature or references encountered, it is said that energy has disappeared from the nuclear bomb hundreds of times, let alone thousands of times stronger than the atomic bomb. Meanwhile, if you look at the history of the Hiroshima atomic bomb and Hiroshima, at that time the explosive energy has been able to destroy the entire city and kill very many victims.

Quoting from the Differentence Between web, nuclear weapons are explosive equipment that gets energy from nuclear responses such as fission, fusion, or a mixture of both. In this case, fission can be referred to as breaking up atoms into 2 or more atoms with a smaller dimension.

On the other hand, fusion is the merger of 2 atoms or more into one large atom.

Nuclear fusion frees up more radioactive particles than nuclear fission. So that the energy it releases is also greater than the energy released by nuclear fission.

Atomic bombs only use nuclear fission, on the other hand, nuclear bombs use nuclear fission all of them with nuclear fusion. So that the explosive energy of this nuclear bomb is more powerful when compared to atomic bombs. As a parable, the explosion from the Hiroshima atomic bomb called the 'Little Boy' freed near 15 kilotons of power or the equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT. On the other hand, the HUMAN plant called Fat Man created an explosion of approximately 21 kilotons of TNT.

Then, what about the US B83 nuclear bomb? The answer is 1.2 megatons. The explosion produced is equivalent to 1,200,000 tons of TNT and about 80 times stronger than Little Boy.

The explosion is not much compared to the Tsar Bomba belonging to the Soviet Union. In 1961 the nuclear bomb created an explosion of approximately 50 megatons or 3,333 stronger than Little Boy.

So, it can be understood that there is a fairly significant comparison between nuclear bombs and atomic bombs. Most importantly on the fission and nuclear fusion used.

Nuclear fission is the process of breaking something atom into 2 or more particles. On the other hand, nuclear fusion is the melting of 2 or more atoms into one large atom.

Atomic bombs only use nuclear fission, instead nuclear bombs use nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. So that when viewed in terms of energy destroyed, nuclear bombs are much stronger than atomic bombs.

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