The basics on how nuclear bombs work:

Nuclear bombs are some of the most powerful and worst weapons in the world. They are some of the most radioactive structures in the world.


Nuclear bombs use both fission and fusion. Fission is when the atom splits and it causes lighter nuclei and for neutrons run free. Fusion is when nuclei charged in multiple ways regroup to form a stronger nucleus. Both fusion and fission both are based on radiation. Radiation is when one nucleus is split up and the protons, neutrons and electrons cause the same thing to happen to other atoms. Radiation is everywhere, harmless and necessary. But the more radiation there is in one place and the faster it is, the more heat there is and enough radiation together forms a radioactive electrical current.

There are different designs for nuclear bombs.

> The "gun- type assembly method" has chemical explosives and sub critical pieces of uranium 235 combined.

> The "Implosion assembly method" has a compressed plutonium core and highly explosive lenses surrounding it.

> The most powerful nuclear weapon is the hydrogen bomb. In the primary part of the inside of the hydrogen bomb, there is a fission bomb inside fission fuel (tritium, deuterium or lithium deuteride). The secondary part of the inside of the bomb is made of three layers. The core is made of a fissile sparkplug. Surrounding that is fission fuel. That is covered by a layer of uranium tamper.