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Do atomic bombs work with atomic fission?
no
Did atomic bombs work by atomic fission?
all nuclear explosives use some fission. even now.
Is it true or false atomic bombs work by atomic fisson?
yes, both true & false. They can work either by fission or some combination of fission & fusion. Most modern nuclear bombs use both fission & fusion to optimize for mission, size, weight, cost, etc. Total yield can vary from 100% fission to more than 95% fusion.
How fission and fusion bombs work?
Probably the best unclassified sources of this information are Richard Rhodes books: The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun.
How did atomic bombs work?
Better than expected.
How does hydrogen and atomic bombs work?
Its probably best if you read Richard Rhodes books: The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun.
What did Marie Curie and Albert Einstein have in common?
nothing They're overall work; they discovered Atomic Fission.
What happened in heroshima 1948?
The work continued to restore the city after the atomic bombs.
What countries were working on atomic bombs during World War 2 Who used atomic bombs in World War 2 Where were atomic bombs used?
Germany and United States where working to make them work. United States got it first and used first on Japan over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What was the use of atomic bombs?
If the atomin bomb didnt work. The preident (Harry Truman) would launch an all-out attack on Japan that I would estimate kill as much people as 20 atomic bombs.
Who invented the theory of the nuclear bomb?
Leo Szilard invented the neutron chain reaction process that makes atomic fission bombs work in 1933.Richard Tolman invented the implosion assembly process that made the plutonium atomic fission bomb possible in 1942.Stanislaw Ulam brought the idea of x-ray driven implosion to Edward Teller and together they invented the staging process (usually called the "Teller-Ulam design" in the US and "Sakharov's Third Idea" in Russia) used in hydrogen fusion bombs in 1951.
Is atomic bomb and nuclear bomb the same?
No, I don't believe so anyway. You see, an Atomic Bomb has an explosion made of the ripping of atoms whereas a nuclear bomb is either a Fission or Fusion reaction(fission=the splitting of molecules/fusion=the joining of atoms to create molecules)Ex. The sun is a giant nuclear explosion/reaction when the atoms of Uranium molecules separate to make a fission reaction and those same atoms join with other atoms to make a fusion reaction and recreating molecules to procede to the fission stage where the process is redone again and again and... etc.Fun Fact: Only two atomic bombs have been dropped one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki No nuclear bombs have ever been dropped in war.-Zazzer acc;)The above is one of the most confused explanations/understandings I have ever seen. For one thing "ripping of atoms" is confused, it really is just a way of saying fission yet its use implies something different from and probably weaker than fission is happening. Molecules are not involved here either, only atomic nuclei (this is a serious confounding of chemical reactions and nuclear reactions, which happen in entirely different parts of atoms and involve about three orders of magnitude difference in energy). Another thing the reaction in the sun does not involve uranium, the sun (as any star) only operates on fusion and at its current stage of life can only fuse hydrogen into helium. There is no such thing as a fission-fusion... and repeat cycle in any star. No star can ever produce elements large enough and heavy enough to fission, only supernova explosions are powerful enough to do that. The two Fission bombs dropped on Japan in the war could equally validly be called Atomic bombs or Nuclear bombs.Atomic and Nuclear are basically interchangeable terms in this area. Both refer to energy obtained from the binding energy of atomic nuclei.There are two types of reactions involved:Fission - breaking of large heavy atomic nuclei into smaller lighter ones.Fusion - combining of small light atomic nuclei into larger heavier ones.From the 1945 Trinity test through 1951 all atomic/nuclear bombs were Fission bombs. After the 1952 Ivy Mike test, atomic/nuclear bombs could be Fusion bombs. However a Fusion bomb is very complex, needing at minimum:A Fission bomb trigger stage to generate x-rays to drive the implosion of the Fusion stage.A rod shaped Fission bomb "sparkplug" the length of the Fusion stage to ignite fusion at maximum compression of the Fusion stage.A cylindrical Fusion bomb stage.A cylindrical metal tamper around the bomb to hold it together for a few extra microseconds, to keep the reaction going and get a good yield. (Note: this tamper is usually made of depleted uranium because of its high density. however a depleted uranium tamper is able to absorb the high energy fusion neutrons and fission, making it responsible for about 90% of the yield and fallout of such bombs.)Therefor a typical Fusion bomb is really a fission-fission-fusion-fission bomb.Most modern Fusion bombs improve the efficiency of and miniaturize the fission trigger by using a hollow core deuterium/tritium gas fusion booster design. A Fusion bomb designed this way is really a fission/fusion-fission-fusion-fission bomb.All currently operating atomic/nuclear reactors are Fission reactors. Work has been going on since the early 1950s to make a Fusion reactor (as it should be cleaner and its fuel is more available), but none has reached "breakeven" (ability to generate enough energy to operate itself) let alone generate enough excess energy to operate as a powerplant.BTW, the "Fun Fact" is also completely false and confused. Many many atomic bombs have been dropped from airplanes or fired as missile warheads, beginning in 1945 and ending in either 1961 or 1962. The two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were thee only ones actually used in war.Please excuse my "micro-thesis" on the subject, but there were so many things needing correction and/or clarification.
