An explosive weapon that uses nuclear fusion to release energy stored in the nuclei of hydrogen isotopes. The high temperatures essential to fusion are attained by detonating an atomic bomb placed at the H-bomb's structural center. The United States tested the first hydrogen bomb in 1954 at the Pacific Test Site.
a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium
a clean weapon which creates a lot of damage but no fallout
a device in which energy from nuclear fusion reactions between isotopes of hydrogen is released in an uncontrolled, explosive manner
an example of fusion, so trying to contain that is somewhat of a challange
Weapon in which the energy from an atom bomb is used to fuse the atoms of hydrogen isotopes, producing even greater amounts of energy.
The hydrogen bomb, or H-bomb, is a nuclear weapon in which light atomic nuclei of hydrogen are joined together in an uncontrolled nuclear fusion reaction to release tremendous amounts of energy. The hydrogen bomb is about a thousand times as powerful as the atomic bomb, or A-bomb, which produces a nuclear fission explosion about a million times more powerful than comparably sized bombs using conventional high explosives such as TNT. See; Fusion, Nuclear Weapon, Thermonuclear.