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Hydrogen bombs vs. atomic bombs: Breaking down the differences in how they work, how much they cost, and which is most powerful

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs are both nuclear weapons that can cause mass destruction. Most US nuclear weapons today were made ...
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How hydrogen bombs work and why they were created after WWII despite being more powerful than atomic bombs

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seven years after the end of WWII, the US detonated the world's first hydrogen bomb. H-bombs use a combination of nuclear fission ...
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How atomic bombs work and why Manhattan Project scientists designed two types of bombs during WWII

Atomic bombs work via a process called nuclear fission that involves atom splitting. Shortly after scientists discovered nuclear fission, the possibility of a bomb was quickly realized. Albert ...
Ars Technica

Reconstructing the first atomic bomb test from a chunk of scorched earth

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Time

Science: The U-Bomb

Asked a reporter at President Eisenhower’s press conference last week: Was the great thermonuclear explosion in mid-Pacific last year a “bargain basement U-bomb”—a sort of “super H-bomb with a jacket ...