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If you are asking about the only two nuclear bombs used against a nation in world war two, I will answer it. The nuclear bomb used in Hiroshima was an uranium bomb. The second one used in Nagasaki was a plutonium bomb.

Radium could have been used in the neutron source, but is far too expensive and gives off too much Beta & Gamma radiation which could have damaged the bomb. Polonium was used in the neutron source instead.

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