Hydrogen bomb how does it work? The bomb on Hiroshima released the energy equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT. The first hydrogen bomb released the energy equivalent of 10,000,000 tons of TNT.
While the atomic bomb like the one that was dropped on Hiroshima worked on the principle of releasing energy through the splitting of atoms – also called fission, a hydrogen bomb does something that releases even more energy, and that is it fuses atoms together.
Fusion is even more powerful than fission. It is the same process that powers our sun.
How does fusion work? The fusion bomb creates energy by combining two isotopes of hydrogen called deuterium and Tritium to create helium. A large amount of energy is released when these two isotopes fuse together to form helium because a helium atom has much less energy than these two isotopes combined. This excess energy is released in the explosion. Lithium-deuteride is what most hydrogen bombs today use as their fuel.
But how does the process of fusion actually occur? Ordinarily the nuclei of two atoms cannot be combined because these nuclei have strong positive electrical charges and repel each other. It turns out that if you increase the temperature by millions of degrees, it is possible to combine nuclei together. The temperatures needed are astronomical – higher than even that at the center of the sun – 100 million degrees Celsius.
This is when the electrons orbiting the nuclei is stripped away from the nucleus and the nuclei and electrons are floating around freely in a kind of high temperature soup. At this temperature, the nuclei can get very close to each other and the strong nuclear strong force binds the protons and neutrons together to form a helium nucleus and a free neutron.
So how is a temperature of 100 million degrees achieved? This is where the fission or atomic bomb inside the hydrogen bomb enclosure comes in. The purpose of the fission bomb is to to heat up the fusion reaction to this 100 million of degrees. A hydrogen bomb is three bombs in one – an ordinary chemical bomb, a fission bomb, and a fusion bomb. The chemical bomb initiates the fission bomb which initiates the fusion bomb.
A small atomic bomb is located at the top of the casing. The top of the sphere contains conventional chemical explosives surrounding a sphere of beryllium mirror casing, inside of which is a smaller uranium or plutonium sphere about 4 to 6 inches in diameter. Below this atomic bomb is the hydrogen or fusion bomb. It consists of a cylinder made of uranium, the fuel for the fusion reaction, lithium deuteride sits inside the cylinder. And at the core of this cylinder sits a rod of plutonium.
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In between the fission and fusion bomb is Styrofoam. First, the fission bomb is detonated by exploding conventional chemical bombs in sequence, this forces the sphere of plutonium 239 or Uranium 235 to implode on itself. The implosion of this material creates a critical mass which results in an atomic explosion.
This fission explosion creates high energy gamma rays and X-rays which heat up the Styrofoam turning it into plasma. The plasma reflects off the beryllium-lined walls and focuses its energy on the fusion cylinder. These x-rays travel at the speed of light, so they reach the hydrogen fuel sooner than the physical shock wave from atomic bomb. This is important because if the shock wave reached there first, the fusion bomb would be blown apart before it could create fusion reactions.
The heat and pressure of the plasma compresses the fusion cylinder causing the lithium-deuteride to react. This releases tritium. The Tritium and deuterium fuse to form Helium and more neutrons. The neutrons cause the uranium casing and plutonium rod to undergo more fission reactions. This causes more pressure on the lithium-deuteride, producing more fusion, and releasing more neutrons which cause more fission. This positive feedback loop of fission-fusion-fission-fusion reactions goes back and forth until a huge explosion occurs ripping everything apart.
All of these events happen in about 600 billionths of a second. The result is a huge explosion. And where does all this energy come from? The sum of all atoms after the explosion would be less than the sum of all the atoms before the explosion. This mass is converted to energy using Einstein’s famous equation E=MC^2.
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And exactly how much mass is converted to energy? To give you an idea, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima converted 700 miligrams of mass into energy. The total uranium used was 55 lbs. A hydrogen bomb however converts about a kilogram or 2 lbs of mass to pure energy. But in order to convert this much, you have to start with about 140 kilos or 300 lbs. of hydrogen.
Only six countries have such bombs —China, France, India, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States.
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For those of you that may be alarmed that this video contains a lot of details that could get into the wrong hands, all the information discussed in this video is available either online or in books. Nothing classified is being discussed here. The barriers to constructing an actual bomb are not because people don't know the science of how hydrogen bombs work, but because it's very difficult to collect and enrich the type and quantity of fuel needed. In addition, the technology of creating the timers, purifiers, and mechanisms necessary to make the bomb work successfully is not trivial.
Great theme music, nice video. Subbed
He missed out South Africa, Israel, Korand Pakistan ea
I truly do not care how it works.
I want to know why mankind cannot put that much energy into "how to make it work together"?
Ten miles is nothing
There are planet crackers today
Who thinks of these things its crazy how it must be fast as light to blow up before the shockwsve hit
5:20 Everyone knows that this bomb will not work because the end of the rocket is not pointy.
Plasma pressure is nothing compared to the x-ray ablation of the secondary pusher. Its surface is zapped by x-rays from the primary, causing a tremendous rocket-effect as the surface material is heated to bazillions of degrees and rockets outward at extreme speed.
I like the rest of the video, but multiple times you said, "created energy", which you should know is not possible. The phrase you probably meant to use was "released energy".
Ablation is a fascinating bit of physics.
Relax. Just because education sucks in the US doesn't mean Iranians learn nuclear physics from YouTube. Iran has over 100 globally ranked STEM universities, many are world leaders in engineering.
How could the temperature be hotter than the center of the sun,if the sun operates with fusion as well?
You have the same hair as a newborn
The astonishing power of those invisible elements is nuts.
دوس لايك محتوى سيئ لانه ليس ناطق بالعربيه🤮🤮
9:04 … you forgot about isreal
So back to NYC … what’s it’s going to take so solve that problem
0:12 except that the allies had basically already won so the use of Nuclear weapons was completely unnecessary and one of America's worst atrocities
VERY WELL, by all reports !😂
9:08 you may be missing one
atomic bomb : pure fision reaction
hydrogen bomb : fision & fusion reaction, fision reaction is needed to trigger fusion reaction because fusion reaction need high temperarture and fision reaction can release temperature around 1 million celcius degrees
risk : hydrogen bomb can explode 5X bigger than atomic bomb but radioactivity is smaller compared than atomic bomb
Scientists the worst people on the planet
The fear of artificial intelligence is nothing compared to organic stupidity some experiments should not be carried out just because you can ❤
Hydrogen heavy water atomic bomb
Scary how much styrofoam I have around the house.
Israel is believed to have thermonuclear weapons as well. Mordechai Vanunu’s public disclosures back in the 1980s (for which the Israeli state severely punished him) provided significant evidence of that fact. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists accepts that this is the case.
This guy is nature worshipper extremist trust me. This whole bombs talk is fake. Pseudoscience
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Wellll 😂😂😂
Hold on now. Is this the same helium I inhaled at my kids birthday party?
"In an effort to stop a war." 🤣 Yeah, right.
Why does in the fusion of hydrogen one neutron is kicked out, as we know neutron is a neutral particle?
Fuzija sama po sebi proizvodi energiju
Reakcija D + T → He + neutron + 17,6 MeV oslobađa energiju.
Od te energije: ~3,5 MeV ide u helij, ~14 MeV ide u neutron.
Dakle, fuzija proizvodi i energiju i neutron, oba su važna.
2⃣ Neutroni se mogu koristiti za “aktivaciju ruda”
Ako oko fuzijskog reaktora stavimo U‑238 ili Th‑232, neutroni iz fuzije mogu:
U‑238 → Pu‑239
Th‑232 → U‑233
Ti izotopi postaju fisibilni, tj. mogu izazvati lančanu fisijsku reakciju.
3⃣ Lančana reakcija iz fisibilnih materijala
Pu‑239 ili U‑233 reagira sa neutronima (sporim ili kontroliranim) → oslobađa ~200 MeV po fisiji.
Oslobođena energija je milijune puta veća po masi nego iz fuzije izravno.
Zato kažemo da je “super-energija” – jer fuzija stvara neutrone, a ti neutrone pokreću fisiju u materijalu koji je inače inertan.
4⃣ Što to znači
Fuzija nije sama po sebi “beskonačna energija” – ona je moćan izvor neutrona.
U kombinaciji sa ruda‑materijalima (U‑238, Th‑232) → stvara se kombinacija fuzija + fisija → maksimalna energija.
Ovo je osnovna ideja fusion-fission hybrid reactors, koja se proučava desetljećima. (osti.gov
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Fuzija proizvodi energiju + neutron.
Neutroni aktiviraju rude (U‑238 → Pu‑239, Th‑232 → U‑233).
Fisija aktiviranih izotopa oslobađa ogromnu energiju → super-energija.
Rezultat: više energije od same fuzije i veća iskoristivost ruda.
Beryllium
Lithium Deuteride
Will these bombs work if earth did not have an atmosphere or oxygen? and why does the O zone exist? and does O mean Oxygen?
what about tsar bomb? is it hydrogen bomb ?
That design doesn't make full sense to me. I understand to a higher extent than some people might but it's starting to feel a little fake.
It's astonishing to see this was created 80 years ago when World wasn't quiet stable, imagine what we have now
The scientists who comes up these ideas probably had God level intelligence (not even joking universe is created by atomic interactions so indirectly atomic energy is a glimpse of divine power)
I don't think the original nuclear bomb will clear a 1 mile radius now. Modern buildings will absorb alot of the impact.
Pakistan has A bomb too. That makes total 7 countries ?
Not to mention that most of the ICBMs are multi stage rockets with multiple warheads and dummy warheads to spoof the intercept rockets. We really have gotten good at creating destruction.
Most of the nuclear weapons today are not H bombs but busted atomic bombs. You don't need 15 megatons, 450 kilotons will serve. In fact, the countries that use H-bombs are the ones with less sophisticated delivery devices. They need it to make up for inaccuracy.