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The only nuclear weapons ever used in war were the "Little Boy" a single stage 80% enriched uranium fission gun bomb and "Fat Man" a single-stage plutonium fission implosion bomb dropped by the USA on Japan at the end of WWII. A "hydrogen bomb" uses that same first plutonium and/or uranium fission explosion to then trigger hydrogen fusion, for 1000 times as powerful an explosion.

They were first tested on Nov 1, 1952 at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. There has never been a hydrogen bomb used in war.

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