Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Ray76

The headline seems a bit silly and self evident.

Isn’t any H bomb more powerful than the relatively primitive bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?


11 posted on 08/04/2017 10:01:39 AM PDT by relictele
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]


To: relictele
Isn’t any H bomb more powerful than the relatively primitive bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Yep. 15 KT for Hiroshima and 21 KT (est) for Nagasaki.

On a side note, there were at least four Japanese people who got caught in both bombs. Which would have sucked.

17 posted on 08/04/2017 10:15:26 AM PDT by Billthedrill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

To: relictele

The term “H-Bomb” is somewhat misleading. It stems from the first “R&D” development of fusion style weapons. In the first test of an H-Bomb (I believe at the Castle series of tests). They used liquid hydrogen in a test cell. It was never really a practical weapon, just designed to test out the theories of nuclear fusion. The practical fusion weapons use lithium hydride.
The are correctly called fusion weapons, or more accurately, “thermonuclear weapons”. They use a staged series of fission-fusion-fission etc. to maximize the explosive energy.
In reality, the fission(A bomb) part of the thermonuclear weapon, is the fuse.


22 posted on 08/04/2017 10:41:47 AM PDT by Arthurive
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

To: relictele

Many, many times more powerful.


25 posted on 08/04/2017 10:51:32 AM PDT by Bonemaker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson