An incendiary bomb is designed to start fires and cause destruction through the use of flammable materials. It typically contains a combination of explosive components and incendiary substances, such as napalm or thermite, that ignite upon detonation. The bomb's design allows it to spread fire over a wide area, making it particularly effective against structures and flammable targets. These bombs are often used in military operations to create chaos and disrupt enemy capabilities.
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Historians prefer to use the term INCENDIARY devices or INCENDIARY bombs; Especially when referring to WW2 in Europe. Napalm bombs/devices are INCENDIARY bombs, but contain another category of chemicals in them such as "Naphthenic & Palmitic" chemicals. During WW2, cities such as Dresden and Tokyo were struck heavily with INCENDIARY devices. Casualty figures are not reliable, but are documented for those cities. Data is also available for the Korean War (1950-1953). Due to the sensitivity of the Vietnam War, casualty figures on the INCENDIARY bombs used in the Vietnam War, commonly referred to as "Napalm Bombs", are not commonly available.
This question makes no sense as an atomic bomb is a nuclear bomb and vice versa. They are the same thing.
All incendiary devices can be (or are).
Something that starts flames and fire.
what is an Incendiary bomb and what damage does it cause
An incendiary device is something that will cause a fire. It can anything from a match to a bomb.
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An incendiary bomb it designed to set fire to it's target.
Incendiary.
A fire bomb is a conventional incendiary bomb: magnesium, napalm, etc. A nuclear bomb uses fission and/or fusion and is mostly a blast effect weapon.
Causing fire. An incendiary bomb starts fires.
conventional explosive and incendiary bombs. also poison gas bombs.
The types of aerial bombs that create blast are "high explosive" (HE). The type of bomb designed to cause fires is an "incendiary" bomb.
The only weapon I can imagine this referring to was Greek fire. It was hardly an atom bomb, however. In one form it was an incendiary bomb that could be thrown by a catapult. In another, it was a flame thrower.
a bomb!
If you mean the destruction of a whole city by incendiary bombs, then the usual term is fire bombing.