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Comparison Of Nuclear And Atomic Bombs

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Nuclear and Atomic bombs are very destructive things that are like a bomb but can destroy a lot more than a normal bomb. The first nuclear bombs, code name Little Boy and Fat
Man. These atomic weapons are so destructive that they can destroy a whole city. The new weapons or the modern ones could potentially destroy up to ten times the amount of the old ones so the new nukes could destroy a lot of land. But the way they are so destructive is that it is a chain reaction that makes a small bomb do so much damage.
The way the bomb is detonated is that you need fissionable material that will collide together. Inside the bomb, down a long tube, a piece of uranium (or plutonium that was used later in bombs after the little boy) was shot at another …show more content…

When all of these atoms fission it is still creating more energy and this process happens over and over again to create so much energy and destruction. Fission is how the chain reaction happens which is the process of the chain reaction and this is how so much energy gets produced from such a small bomb. Another type of nuke, a fusion bomb uses more abundant materials that violently fuse creating a nuclear blast. The materials used are deuterium and tritium. These bombs are called hydrogen bombs for another name to use. In the fusion bomb it creates twice as much radiation but it removes most of the fissile material which makes more radiation but the bomb less toxic.
Other nukes out there are neutron bombs. Other bombs have a more thick case of lead or other material. But with neutron bombs they are more on the thin side for casing but they are made to be able to have liquid pass through them. This kind of bombs main purpose was …show more content…

This kind of bomb creates a lot more radioactive material.
The concept also has been named “Salt The Earth” but this type of bomb has never been tested to see the actual damage it could do.
The last type of bombs are dirty bombs that are used by terrorists who can't use nuclear power but use normal bombs that so a fraction amount of damage but they use regular bombs but a sample of radioactive material to make it radioactive.
So nuclear bombs are very destructive thing that you know now how they work and how they do so much damage. This also shows how the fission bomb works with the chain reaction multiplying and making so much energy that does a ton of damage. But also you learned how fusion bombs work that violently fuse together creating enough energy to use all of its nuclear power to destroy a lot of land. Also after that you learned how the other types of bombs work like the neutron bomb that targets many different thing and can do a lot of damage and with that the salted bomb could eventually be used to do massive amounts of damage, but this bomb has not been tested so people do not know what could happen. Also the last type of bomb is very unique and a new idea without using much radioactive

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