you are all incorect to some degree. what actualy happens in a fission bomb like hiroshima is either a gun type, which fires one lump of enriched U235 into another, starting a nuclear chain reaction. There are also implosion types, which use tnt or other high explosives to crush a sphere of fissle material, like plutonum isotopes, starting a chain reaction. In fusion type bombs a isotope of a light element, like hydrogen isotopes deutrium (DEUT) or tritrium, not in tpt by exposing it to high heat and pressure causing the nucli to overcome the natural repultion pushing them apart and causing them to fuse together to produce helium. this may be done by using a fisson bomb to fuse the hydrogen. What is more effective than all of the above in real life is an antimatter bomb, which is one atom of antimater is combined with a atom of regular matter can cause an explosion large enough to be seen with the human eye, with to atoms of explosives. not so AWSOMEMAN, IM TWELVE SO THIS GEEK JUST MIDDLE-SCHOOLED YOU. YEAHHHHHHH!
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A nucleur bomb (Im assuming that we are talking about a fission bomb) is detonated by tnt or other explosive firing a radioactive element onto another radioactive element thus creating a chain reaction of nuetron and explodey stuff. IM in middleschool and i know this.
@ThundaMonkey What zXHaZzAXz Said. But it doesn' cause a Chemical Reaction. it causes a NUCLEAR Reaction. One stray neitron hits an atom. That atom splits and releases more neutrons. and so the cycle continues. (o Represents neutron. O represents atom.) o 0. ooo. ooo OOO. oooooooooooo. Chain Reactions.
@ThundaMonkey You're right but that radioactive element is propelled into the other radioactive element (plutonium) by tnt. (mabye you should make sure what your talking about
@DoritosTaco Make sure you know what you are talking about before you say stuff. No, a nuclear bomb is NOT detonated by TNT or some sort of explosive. A nuclear bomb is detonated by some type of radioactive element, such as Uranium. Then starts a insane chemical reaction with the Plutonium and other Radioactive elements, causing the explosion.
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