Nuclear Bomb: How it Works in detail. Atomic vs Hydrogen bomb (H-bomb)

[@ArvinAsh]

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.

[@ethorii]

This is a fantastic video. I recently read an older paper called "The Effects of Nuclear Attack on the Rio Grande Valley." It covers the compounding fission/fusion processes and the ground damage up to about 30 miles away. Pretty horrifying.

[@afiffarhati4580]

Its especially the political pressure and threat of foreign intervention that prevents countries from making them , the world superpowers will never let other nations developp their own bombs and become a threat to them , i'm surprised India managed to pull it off...

[@DJones476]

@@KennyT187 Okaaaaaay. Time to delete your comment, now.

[@DJones476]

@@Broodplankje204 "The greatest secret of the H-bomb is that there _is_ no secret..." - Howard Morland

[@user-mg6rf8yz1s]

__e_

[@Rondo455]

Went down a rabbit hole after watching Oppenheimer and this was the most informative video. No other videos clearly explain the chemical reactions inside the bomb. Keep up the good work!

[@aaltooo]

If you really want to know more about the nuclear bomb showed in Oppenheimer, you should watch other video made by this guy. This one covers more details about hydrogen bomb. Here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKPNiGBnZr5sqbs

[@Roddy556]

Probably because this video was made several years ago by someone who was passionate about the subject versus the latest wave of poor quality, all fluff nonsubstance clickbait bomb videos riding the Oppenheimer popularity wave.

[@eddie4867]

Same I probably spent hours learning physics as well as looking through Einstein theories

[@tbn22]

A nuclear reaction is not chemical.

[@aaltooo]

@@righe8701 Doesn't change the fact that fission or fussion are not chemical reactions.

[@DennisAH]

USA: "Iran, how on earth did you get hydrogen bombs so fast?!" Iran: "Easy, we found a KZbin tutorial."

[@Extrasailor]

This is best joke on the internet. Ahahahaha, I am dying.

[@oculosprudentium8486]

For many years now I've seen a lot of Discovery, History & Military channel videos on TV and I'm shocked on how they blatantly disclose the company names & address, and during the interview they show the names & faces of the folks developing these technologies. I'm sitting there feeling shocked & alarmed and thinking "don't these fools realize that Everyone in the world now knows where they can go to steal or sabotage this technology! !" Those people dont seems care about OPERATIONAL SECURITY (OPSEC) or National Security and they seem hellbent on leaking secrets above everything else.

[@mikehundredson584]

You act as if it's easy to make a nuke.

[@DennisAH]

@@oculosprudentium8486 exactly. I am also worried that they simply broadcast information like this.... where will this world end?

[@Ash888Mohd]

Hahahahahahahah i can't stop laughing

[@amiechallah3667]

you're a really good teacher. this is the 1st time i have been able to grasp an idea of how this actually works. thank you so much for sharing this!🙂

[@Rosa-cr7qc]

trust me fbi agent, its for a school project

[@Helperbot-2000]

FBI agent: "oh ok i und, wait a minute!! what do you need an Hbomb for??"

[@fbi1819]

This is a job for the CIA

[@waseemq1522]

@@fbi1819 😂😂😂

[@Solisium-Channel]

FBI I see you way too often... are you following me? No, I’m following you!!

[@fbi1819]

@@Solisium-Channel Maybe Because Im the *FBI*

[@indiablackwell]

2:55 "The result was a dry solid stable powder, called cocaine. This enabled the scientist to work hours on end without rest in order to create the hydrogen bomb"

[@jpeg.600x2]

why isn't this top comment

[@NeverTalkToCops1]

Good one.

[@eloimumford5247]

, i wonder what kind of bomb would result by using cannabis...a stoned bomb ?

[@telefoninoinglese9794]

Eloi Mumford a food bomb to eat😂

[@toddpnewton]

BWAAHAHAHA! That's it. Done. Signing out of the interent for the rest of the day.

[@FJoeB1998]

I never would have thought that Hydrogen bombs literally had styrofoam in them.

[@logicplague]

Iran: Styrofoam.....my god, that's it!

[@Danuxsy]

Who will win: A. Modern city B. some styrofoam

[@logicplague]

@no u dude is INSANE! People worry about guns and he's building 200W lasers lol.

[@PozieNayan]

So, they made styrofoam bomb then.

[@NyanCatHerder]

@@Danuxsy Some metal in one foamy boi.

[@Tewfeek]

here after Oppenheimer, pretty insane the ideas these scientists were able to put into practice

[@truefamily244]

Same

[@amateur_football9751]

Its not insane if you read the history of atomic discoveries, they were not done by one person, it was many, over many decades, one discovery lead to another in a logical sequence, the only thing needed was a government willing to spend the money to actually build it

[@shubhsrhmusic]

Lol same

[@josesantillan237]

Same and hell yeah it's freaking crazy

[@exlibrisas]

Holly trinity, even a dumbass like me understood everything in this video! That means creators did a phenomenal job.

[@dukecraig2402]

@Timothy McCaskey Shave and a haircut, 2 bits🤣🤣🤣

[@aCleverFishingPun]

Holy

[@MikeRawGaming]

exlibrisas same lol

[@ndo144]

exlibrisas fun fact: the (not holy) trinity test was the first nuclear detonation

[@exlibrisas]

@@ndo144 Well I know that. It started nuclear era.

[@thecircleoflove7557]

"These things don't just kill, they annihilate. We humans have become quite efficient at it"

[@Spyder8561]

We're human. You're part neanderthal..so don't give us real humans a bad name. Real humans wouldn't even think to create something like this. Only a devil can imagine such destruction.

[@filescout266]

@@Spyder8561 The first step to change as a person is to accept your flaws. Accept that humans are not divine or superior creatures, we are all but animals doing what animals do best, reproduce and kill each other, being good or evil is not a matter of DNA it is a matter of character.

[@rr_gaming4954]

@@Spyder8561 Nuclear weapons have legitematly done more good than bad. Without them there would've been a ww3 and it would've fucking destroyed Europe, nuclear weapons are the only things that stopped this. Armed conflicts would be overall much more common Around the world, a LOT more human suffering than in our timeline

[@justinbiggs1005]

@@Spyder8561 though I despise the thought of hydrogen bombs being used in a nuclear war they have done more good than bad so far. Nuclear weapons are a double edged sword. Though there's the very very small possibility of total nuclear annihilation they are an incredibly powerful deterrent. The main reason a third world war hasn't happened yet is because of nuclear weapons. Nobody wants to go to war thanks to the nuclear doctrine of mutually assured destruction.

[@Spyder8561]

The fact that you guys are justifying the creation and use of these weapons only prove the point I'm making 😈

[@stephenwinchester6668]

How the hell did they figure this out?! The science behind this is fascinating, terrifying and mind boggling

[@theyedmeister6981]

"Cocaine is a hell of a drug." -That one wise man

[@TN_HondaDad]

Stephen Winchester I am with you, just amazing and beyond my comprehension of my little brain that subatomic molecules can do this and the ones who discovered it. And people wonder if there is a higher being that created all of this. Lol

[@kathleendircks907]

They accidentally blew up a nuclear reactor...

[@ephennell4ever]

The early versions were quite a different design; significantly harder to get exactly right, and had a lower maximum yield due to the limitations built into that design. So, it's a matter of fiddling with the design bit by bit, changing things here and there, finding out what *doesn't* work, etc., etc., etc., ... *lotsa* work and brain-time! Except that *this* video makes a short-cut for ... whomever!

[@doctorjones278]

The Manhattan Project is a fascinating bit of history. If you really want to know how they figured it out, start there.

[@jeffjeff8562]

The most amazing two things aside from the incredible amount of energy stored in the fuel is the fact that the blast impact from the fission bomb cannot reach the hydrogen fuel before the x rays and the mathematics and scientific calculations it took to realize what is needed to contain the energy of the fission bomb for long enough to cause the compression of the fusion cylinder.

[@andreja2726]

Agreed. Also fascinated by timeframe everything happens and precision, technical challenges for compression of fission fuel with chemical implosion. That's some another level engineering

[@ajarivas72]

​@@andreja2726more fascinating is the fact that all devices worked perfectly without glitches 80 years ago.

[@guitarj3570]

Wow, best 10 minutes I have spent in quite some time. Thank you.

[@D-train69]

A, I was thinking the same thing.

[@WifeBTR123]

Wow, it sure did not feel like 10 minutes.

[@iamzcenitz9628]

"I know not with what weapons WWIII will be fought, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones." ~Albert Einstein

[@korzbro35]

At least now we have an answer for the first part... all this thermonuclear stuff. Let's hope this quote will never turn to reality (but probably it will).

[@teenagerinsac]

An Extinct species can't fight PERIOD :)

[@peterbunnell2373]

WW3 is already being fought with stocks and bonds. WW4? Sticks and stones if we're lucky.

[@gregboggs4721]

Stones is all that will be left!

[@oculosprudentium8486]

I disagree, they can leave behind booby traps for later victims,

[@Lavourrin]

So how do you intend to build a nuclear bomb? Me: First I will get some styrofoam and we will see from there.

[@robertthomas5906]

Environmentalists - That's not eco friendly. Use the bio degradable stuff. LOL.

[@100GTAGUY]

@@robertthomas5906 it's a shame they don't realize not even primordial soup would be left behind in any environment of a nuclear detonation lol, gods gonna need to work for another seven days to get that shit up and running again...

[@lizardkingproductions]

😆

[@rrock2025]

Me: ok

[@PSchearer]

You need weapons-grade styrofoam. :-)

[@bgorveatt]

My cousin, Dr Donald MacRae, worked at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He was a Canadian astrophysicist and worked with a small team of physicists on the purification of Uranium 238 for the Trinity bomb. There were a few Canadians involved throughout the Manhattan Project, he was one of them. Thank you for this on how it all comes together!

[@colbyr7811]

Bro just doxxed his family, Putin's boutta come for him.

[@remyscar]

@@colbyr7811 I'm just surprised he's still alive in 2024

[@colbyr7811]

@@remyscar Putin's coming to get him, said he'll be there shortly. Just picking up some Mickey D's on the way

[@nonagvamberia6039]

Fake this A and H bomb .... technically a huge hoax

[@nordattack]

The most perfect and clear explanation of how an H Bomb works I have ever seen. Thank you!

[@YEIMS147]

"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

[@yuchi3667]

The Radiance - Linkin Park

[@JJs_playground]

Oppenheimer quote, nice.

[@NeverTalkToCops1]

@@JJs_playground Oppy was quoting ancient Indian scripture, The Bhagavad Gita.

[@That_One_Guy...]

Noice quote papa oppen-hymen

[@sethgeller8078]

An ancient Hindu text, quoted by an American

[@ytbobo31]

My respect for styrofoam just went up several notches.

[@RME76048]

The foamed containers used by McDonald's to put their sandwiches in is actually recycled from bombs. Very few people are aware of that. :|

[@xXtenseXx]

Now mix it with gasoline, and you have napalm

[@fugslayernominee1397]

Hahahh

[@Flyingfast79]

Amazing that styrofoam was first designed for nuclear bombs and now they are used in every product

[@RME76048]

@@Flyingfast79 Uhhh, nope. 1941. Look it up.

[@MattSean06]

Arvin. HUGE fan of the channel. Truly. Small request- can you turn down the background music slightly? Sometimes it’s too loud and competes with your voice

[@bin4ry_d3struct0r]

This is an excellent explanation! The presence of Styrofoam in a hydrogen bomb was definitely news to me!!

[@adamfirst3772]

yep, and PL Rod got a memtion too.. but thats ALL it got!!!! i dont blame him for not going into detail though.. im worried to even type out the full name!!,

[@stevengilliam9327]

If I’m not mistaken it was also used in making napalm.

[@sequenc9-1111]

Nah it's actually polystyrene foam

[@stevengilliam9327]

Squid5464 Yeet thanks for clearing that up for me I remembered foam of some sort just wasn’t sure which👍

[@hamzatgelagaev9758]

@@stevengilliam9327 why

[@kami-kazi]

The fact we human can even split atoms apart blows my mind let alone create temperatures hotter than the center of our sun..I wish I was this interested in fusion /fission back when I was a student as I am as an adult. Great video

[@paulanderson79]

Fission and fusion are entirety natural phenomena. All mankind is doing is harnessing nature. That said, I have doubts about the plausibility and existence of fusion weapons.

[@Balnazzardi]

@@paulanderson79 pure fusion weapons dont exist and they dont have to...like explained triggering fusion with fission works just fine. I really wonder why some ppl do not believe that fusion is something we can achieve in our power plants or that Its even real, like whats up with that?

[@paulanderson79]

@@Balnazzardi Fusion is absolutely real. It's an entirely natural phenomenon. However, fusion does NOT occur in commercial power reactors, nor in medical or research reactors. There is no such thing as a man made fusion reactor. All reactors are fission reactors. From a purely scientific perspective I wish to point out that belief form no part of information. It's a dangerous and very easily exploited emotion.

[@AzetheReal]

@Advocatus Diaboli "scaled down...to give the pilots who were tasked to drop it a chance of survival." Lmao.

[@j3in725]

Your never to old to learn something, don't let anyone tell you otherwise

[@GoldenGateNum9]

*“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” - Albert Einstein*

[@tonyduncan9852]

By cockroaches.

[@websolution7423]

Albert Einstein forget about sticks because for sticks we need trees and as you know the admin is nuclear scientist he explain everything will be converted to helium atom and there will be nothing just free election and neutron floating in air with helium atom then how the hell we will get sticks🤔🤔🤔

[@Dannysince1985]

If ww3 kills everyone and everything who's going to be fighting ww4?? Plus when the sun implodes nothing will matter anyway.....

[@tonyduncan9852]

@@websolution7423 _"there will be nothing just free election and neutron floating in air with helium atom"_ - No, there won't. Are you an idiot?

[@tonyduncan9852]

@@Dannysince1985 _"If ww3 kills everyone"_ - No, it won't. It will just kill 99% of everyone. That will leave eighty million unlucky starving freezing and hunted people hiding from predators and each other. _"when the sun implodes"_ - It won't. It will blow up to be a 'red giant', and then fade as a 'white dwarf'. If humans are still alive somewhere, it won't be in the Solar System.

[@GiovanniGuarnera-bg3ge]

I have been studying Physics for 20+ years. And in all this time only two videos have been able to accurately describe these reactions thoroughly, completely simply. Only one part was incorrect. Nicely done.

[@martylost167]

Well are you going to tell us or is that a Secret?

[@martylost167]

I found the "FOGBANK". Funny how the old men were able to do it and kill a few, but the kids said "We have to be safe!". They are cleaning up Y12, but there is still a cancer cluster.

[@mohit_tiwari25]

WHICH PART IS INCORRECT CAN YOU PLEASE ELEBORATE AND TELL US THE RIGHT PART

[@shawnt5272]

So THAT'S why my prototype doesn't work!!!!! 🤣 Which part is incorrect?

[@mabsrawr10]

“Pointy heads are scarier”-dictator Aladdin I see how..

[@Wot50202]

anonymous mofo Aladeen 🤣🤣

[@Jon.A.Scholt]

Poor nuclear Nadal

[@hijamsanjitkumar364]

Yeah this is round shape so it is not scary

[@yourcommentmightnotworksop9987]

where is NUCLEAR NADAL the PROCURER of WOMAN

[@biosphereup9141]

Of all the countless KZbin tutorials for helping the average guy understand this process, this one is by far the best, and easiest to understand.

[@trplethree4548]

The x and gamma rays reaching the litium before the initial explosion of the atomic bomb is insane to think about. How were they able to have such an understanding of these atoms and chemicals that they could foresee the process. So interesting

[@styxll923]

Its easy. xrays and gamma rays travel at the speed of light. So they travel MUCH faster than the shockwave, since the shockwave pobably just travels at not even 1/10.000th of the speed of light.

[@jsdowling1989]

Mathematics

[@yousef-alnassar]

Experiments. They reach a full understanding of x rays and gamma rays and all the materials involved (individually , of course), and then try to work out how each of them affect the other. For example, you wish to know how a certain material conducts electricity, for that you must understand conductivity at an atomic and molecular level. And then use that understanding as a reference piece of knowledge to conclude how electricity would behave through another material. Hopefully I was able to convey the concept I have.

[@nuntana2]

And despite all that massive liberation of power, hydrogen bombs are still incredibly inefficient. If we ever get to figuring out an anti-matter bomb, it really is game over.

[@karansodhi]

High school wave physics

[@harry2928]

Thanks Mr. Ash; once again, a very concise and tidy delivery. Palatable in the way you intensely simplify the topic but it's necessary. Splendid. You're one of the individuals making youtube worthwhile. 👌🏻

[@MElaughs]

I wondered about the science behind them and what the implosion part actually meant and your diagram really helped, this really opened my eyes to the level of research that went into destruction and I feel uncomfortably moved by it. That was horrible - thank you ☮️

[@franktothemax]

Couldn't have said that better myself

[@spaceman081447]

What was horrible?

[@Head-Tr1ck]

​@@spaceman081447the fact that good people researched, built, and tested such a horrible weapon, and the fact that they are still being produced.

[@spaceman081447]

@@Head-Tr1ck Nuclear weapons and the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) are what prevented a major war between the USA and the USSR. The military conflicts between the two sides were carried out entirely by proxy wars. The making of tools and weapons is intrinsic to human nature. Once the principles of fission and fusion were discovered, it was inevitable that they would eventually be developed into weapons. Fission was first discovered in Germany in 1938. The US started working on the Bomb out of fear that Nazi Germany would get one first. Actually, the United States has shown remarkable restraint over the decades of the Cold War. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the US could have easily nuked the USSR while suffering minimal casualties. During the Korean War, there were people who wanted to nuke China. During the Vietnam War, there were people who wanted to nuke North Vietnam. Neither of those things happened.

[@edog5707]

My favorite Einstein's quote, is ... "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well.enough"

[@ark1289]

Wasn't that Feynman?

[@EddyA1337]

@@ark1289 let's just chalk it up to a general scientists quote

[@ryanwarner5006]

If you only understand a simple explanation then you don't understand enough.

[@Sinoops]

@@ark1289 There have probably been many many scientists throughout history that have said this

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

simple is relative.

[@adolpino]

When you think about a fact that a part of a penny contains enough energy in mass to annihilate small city...It's quite unbelivable.

[@martinicc67]

Actually a physical penny has even more, but turning copper into fuel for fusion is way too hard

[@natesmartkid6493]

the penny does not contain that much energy, it IS that much energy.

[@briancooley8777]

Nate The Smart Gate same thing lol

[@joebledsoe257]

In an electrical explosion. The conductor material that arcs will expand to 64,000 times their original size. I have seen some hellacious arcs and only the very tips of the corners of the connecting lugs were melted from the arc. It is said that a bolt of lightning is less than the diameter of a human hair.

[@NiSiochainGanSaoirse]

@@martinicc67 mate, you haven't met my ex missus's mother! She was TINY, but she could clear a city block with one big hairy armpitted grunt!

[@ocjok3r]

I’m here after seeing Oppenheimer - sir, this video is brilliant. Simply brilliant. I learned a ton, and I am grateful for that.

[@jondellar]

This is the clearest explanation I've seen of how it all works. Also, easy-on-the-ear narration and no crazy music. Thank you!

[@CameronCajun]

Thank you for such a well-crafted video. Not only did you lay out, in the most appropriate order, the elements required for the layman's understanding, but you perfectly anticipated the concepts where additional clarification was needed. Superb video!

[@ArvinAsh]

Glad it was helpful!

[@The_Flying_Comrade]

@@ArvinAsh yes. very helpful i cant wait to test it out...

[@RtB68]

Styrofoam internals? So that explains when I dropped my wife's Amazon delivery, she exploded.

[@khaled1988able]

Hehehe

[@xyzct]

You can return her. Amazon has a good policy.

[@MrMotorNerd]

She was always a " TIMEBOMB " Its a variable that modern man is clearly aware of ! They WILL go off , its just a case of when .

[@dskyyksd]

Styrofoam? How environmentally unfriendly!

[@Barefoot433]

@@dskyyksd Yeah, that shit lasts forever!

[@paulcooper1046]

This provides more context than most videos about this subject. Thank you for providing more clarity. Cheers, mate...☀

[@karrensusan4825]

This was the best compact and fascinating science video I’ve ever seen from a ytber with less than 30k subs

[@avdm1098]

Iran: WRITE THIS DOWN QUICK

[@lucasbell5910]

Bahaha

[@goosesteppa7642]

They don't even want a bomb. Stop believeing your murdering government.

[@fromanabe8639]

Yes, we will bomb a civilian population as we did in Japan. Japan attacked a military and naval base in Hawaii. The US destroyed two Japanese civilian cities killing tens of thousands of women and children. Who has the moral high ground here?

[@batrd1442]

Real Enemy OF the whole Universe is America!!! Every fu*kin war they started with some big nonsense state THAT every low IQ brain instantly receive as a "real deal"... America's biggest Enemy is the gouverment OF the same state...

[@cowfat8547]

@@fromanabe8639 you obviously have zero knowledge about the pacific war

[@chasecreange4449]

Very informative. Thank you for actually talking to us like we are adults. I started a few other vids; from other guys, and it was obvious they were trying to make it seem cool to an immature high schooler. You kept it on point, informative and mature. Well done, Sir.

[@OfentseMwaseFilms]

We are all here after Oppenheimer! 💯

[@billant2]

I'm actually here to correct the incorrect term at 6:12 not in "sequence" but in "sync". If it was exploded in "sequence" meaning one after another then it would fail. The whole idea is to implode the core at the same time in total sync.

[@maniac50ae14]

Never seen it, just always had an interest in these things

[@amateur_football9751]

Well no, I haven't watched it, nor do I care to watch it, but have always been interested in how the Sun works

[@DravenFNM]

nope i just like nuclear physics

[@rivciks5045]

Who is Oppenheim?

[@EpsilonXenos]

I feel like I've learned forbidden knowledge.

[@AhnafAbdullah]

Don't worry it's not like anyone has the technical knowledge to do it

[@anthonyc4138]

Lol

[@goosesteppa7642]

Epsilon Xenos Einstein's has you now... Want some soup? It's yummie i hear.

[@AlexandraofUnusualIdeas]

Yes indeed. Feels weird

[@NeverTalkToCops1]

@@AhnafAbdullah No, it's not about "anyone", the difficulty lies in gathering the plutonium and the "styrofoam" material. Research "FOGBANK"

[@jimbeck3230]

Very well done presentation! I was not aware of the polystyrene component and the very important function it performs.

[@765kvline]

It seems to me that Bendix Corporation in Kansas City had something to do with this plastic sheeting on such weapons.

[@Evan_Bell]

@Vulcan Logix ______ No nuclear weapon uses antiproton initiation, lol. Regular proton beams have been used though.

[@jonasmarcell]

I feel better now, because when a hydrogen bomb explodes near to me at least I will know, how it works and die like A SCIENTIST LOL

[@goosesteppa7642]

Marcell Jónás Einstein's getting away with mass murder!

[@briancarton1804]

@@goosesteppa7642 Einstein didn't make the bomb , he just came up with the equation figuring hom much energy was contained in atoms. All atoms are made of energy just some release the energy when manipulated by man.

[@MaryJaneSchenk]

great video keep it up I learned a lot!!!😍

[@MyTotes]

What truly blows my mind is the fact that all these processes happen simultaneously and less than a blink of an eye.

[@barakgooroo5082]

Your blink analogy has me worried for your mental state tbh. 550 billionths of a second mate....

[@clifffff7630]

you can make a tonne of money if your eyes blink at the rate of "500 billionth of a second"...

[@mattcero1]

I watch this sort of stuff all the time and this guy has produced one of the finest I've seen. Nice job!

[@fugslayernominee1397]

This channel deserves a lot more subscribers. Keep up the great work sir, sooner or later the many more other knowledge seekers will come to know of this channel as well.

[@andreja2726]

Basic and understandable presentation, without fuzzy scientific expressions. Maybe you could mention designer of this kind of weapon but overall great video. Could you explain EMP and how it works? Subscribed👌

[@applejacks971]

"It's the Lybians, they wanted me to build them a bomb. Instead I just gave them a shiny bomb casing filled with used pinball machine parts...RUN FOR IT MARTY!!!" - Doc Brown

[@GuitarHeroPhenomSux]

Oh my god they found me. I don't know how but they found me.

[@ntl5983]

This is heavy.

[@dcsmooth]

HA!!!! I read this in Doc Brown’s voice and wild mannerisms!! 😂

[@dcsmooth]

Hugh Jass Who?? WHO????

[@samschannel531]

I wonder how they showed that movie in Libya.

[@kinvert]

I hope the NSA doesn't find out I have styrofoam in my house.

[@paulanderson79]

:-)

[@ronvosick8253]

I bet you have a mirror as well.

[@kinvert]

@@ronvosick8253 Shut up shut up shut up

[@martynaskerdokas8438]

Kurt he probably uses energizer lithium batteries :D

[@oculosprudentium8486]

It could be worse! Can you imagine the problems that you would have if you live in Kalifornia and they found out that you still have PLASTIC STRAWS and you vote Republican! ?

[@goofyiest]

Cool. I will note that most fusion bombs deployed today are not in the MT range, but 100's of KT range. Also, you didn't mention boosted weapons, which I believe is just a way to make the primary in the fusion bomb smaller. Great stuff!

[@singularityphoenixx]

A 200 kt nuke weighs 200 lbs. Boosting the fission (first part of the) bomb does reduce the amount of fissile material (extremely expensive), but most of the energy comes from the second stage of the device (the lithium deuteride fusion stage).

[@prashantsinghsisodia6709]

@@singularityphoenixx who gave this relation? Yield to weight ratio depends upon design efficacy.

[@Malpheron]

Boosting does greatly reduce the size/mass need for the primary because boosting greatly increasing the neutron economy. Boosting also makes the weapon resistant to pre-detonation. Most deployed nuclear weapons still generate a lot of energy from fission in the secondary. You can make weapons that get a higher proportion of their energy (therefore, less fallout) from fusion, but they are going to be bulker and heavier, which is not what you want for a weapon. And although fallout is bad, it is not nearly as bad as killing 100,000s of people with one weapon.

[@carlosalbert7667]

Best description of how nukes work ever put together on a video by far.

[@s1a1j1]

Me: learn yoga.. Tube: recommendation"how hydrogen bomb works"..

[@stephenkavanagh3560]

U poor inocente sap: when u do yoga you permit lots ofevil demons into your body!!

[@sreeshakv5405]

@@stephenkavanagh3560 yoga destroys evils and provides health, Right knowledge gives devotion and leads to god.

[@rrock2025]

Me: goes to bed

[@supravatsarkar4090]

@@stephenkavanagh3560 you are so stupid

[@naveenarora6467]

@@somedumbozzie1539 wow. Why coz he is brown? Just so u know even if u spend more than many lifetimes studying Yoga u still won't be a Yogi. The excercise part that you call Yoga is just the warm up for u to help u sit for hours and days in intense meditation of different kinds to deeply understand the universe or yourself and things that are higher than this universe.

[@GregSr]

Fascinating video. During the peak of the Cold War, I was a Staff Sargent (E5) stationed at a SAC base in northern Maine. We had nine B-52's on 24 hour alert loaded to the teeth with nukes and fuel. Target: Moscow. I was on a detail responsible for securing the weapons convoy route between the flight line and the nuclear weapons storage area. While standing on the side of the convoy route, I actually got to see real nukes up close and personal as the convoy passed by. The nukes are mounted on special racks that mount in the belly of the B-52. The weapons transfer happens at night. The transport vehicles are brightly illuminated and carrying heavily armed personnel. That was an experience I'll never forget.

[@ArvinAsh]

Fascinating story!

[@NeverTalkToCops1]

Great story, I wish many more would forward and tell their nuclear tales.

[@ijya6413]

Don't you think it's secret?

[@ephennell4ever]

@@ijya6413 ... no base there anymore, and loading procedures have changed since then, and he isn't giving details as to exactly what happened at either end of the convoy or even just what they looked like. No worries here.

[@Eric-kn4yn]

You knew the target Moscow. I don't think so that's highly classified info

[@cloroxbleach7554]

Hi FBI guy, This just popped up in my recommendations. All good, im a good guy, I swear.

[@goosesteppa7642]

The CIA still plan to murder us.

[@FriedrichHerschel]

I only have a long beard because the barber shops are closed.

[@crocodile1313]

@@goosesteppa7642 If the CIA really wanted you and I dead, we would be dead.

[@currentriver4951]

@@crocodile1313 So true!

[@Puppy_Puppington]

WOW ur so funny and original. Good job

[@yuumijungle548]

ive watched about 3 videos covering this topic already and this is the first time i think that i actually understand it

[@austinmelbourne5085]

I have become death, the destroyer of worlds. -robert Oppenheimer.

[@rayt2905]

Actually, that is a quote from the Hindu Bhagavad Gita.

[@oliverrodriguez546]

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita.

[@dukecraig2402]

Austin Melbourne Good job on hookin up Oppenheimer's quote with this video kid, shows you're thinkin👍👍👍

[@grrmonkey]

@@dukecraig2402 cringe

[@dcb1138]

Better him than the Japanese at the time

[@YouTube_user3333]

Finally someone who can clearly explain this topic 👏

[@flaplaya]

Coming from a couple of bad videos I was expecting less. I was surprised this one was real information and well presented. It also was efficient and entertaining. Thanks

[@riuqpijfkdls]

Same. So many youtubers add comedy, obnoxious music and personality which has no place for a topic such as this

[@geoffreywilliams9324]

This is the most convincing and perhaps easily understood explanation of the H bomb. Not saying I could make one mind you !

[@billpeart]

Amazing we haven't found a cure for cancer but 75 years ago we found a way to make a hydrogen bomb.smh

[@romuloambay9624]

no need to discover cure for cancer we will die anyway of hydrogen bomb. .a number of earthlings will survive the conflagration become mutants and cancer resistants. .

[@lorekeeper685]

There is but not an effcient one

[@mrkhoury8630]

The cure of cancer is founded long years ago i think ,but for marketing purpuse and hight cost chemical treatment ,they prefer to let people die and make money rather than giving people that real cure

[@samyakjain1725]

What if we have the cure but it doesn't work on rat

[@vbgvbg1133]

Romulo Ambay Cancer is literally just rogue cells that don’t stop dividing. Cancer immunity isn’t possible.

[@serotonin9218]

KZbin : How Hydrogen Bombs work Kim Jon Un : “interesting. 🤔”

[@jesperlykkeberg7438]

Kim Jon Un : "....watching science fiction on youtube always make me laugh."

[@Tbear91]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bulkzorage]

The video is still padding on his windows 95 gateway tower and 56k dial up net connection

[@louiecarrigan821]

@@bulkzorage 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@marcuswalrod216]

I like how he didn’t have to get political about nuclear weapons and was still able to make a quality, entertaining, and educational video. Round of applause to you sir.

[@Blueknight1960]

Teaching should never be political.

[@bongobob7079]

@@Blueknight1960 But yet our colleges these days are ran by evil and vile activists who call themselves teachers.

[@Blueknight1960]

@@bongobob7079 True, all I said is teaching should never be political.

[@thomasbarber7739]

In fact, by not listing Israel or Pakistan in the "atomic club," this video is political. Most statements are.

[@fr9714]

He left out Israel and Pakistan in the nuclear countries list and thus made it political. I'm sure he is smart enough to know but ignored them on purpose. Not sure why though.

[@spacecat3198]

In all my years or reading (I have adhd) and trying to watch stuff about nukes from creation, to use to now you've explained this the best so far. I've subbed.

[@sagebiddi]

It blows my mind that more people dont know who you are. Then again I'm grateful you aren't too "hollywood" yet and you actually care about knowledge and sharing it with people you dont know. ....I for one appreciate so so much what you do. I wish I could meet you and hang out just to hear some of the amazing things that bounce around that awesome psyche of yours !

[@ArvinAsh]

Wow, thanks my friend! That may be the best compliment I've gotten here. I really appreciate it.

[@sagebiddi]

@@ArvinAsh well that just made MY day !!!...I hope you know it isnt just me sir ...I think as a society we are slowly but surely losing the inherant urge to question and explore. So because you are doing what you do it pretty much makes you a walking wonder...like a mobile UNESCO site or something. Lol...Idk..but THANK YOU SO MUCH and keep on going....some of us are paying astute attention !!!

[@dr.OgataSerizawa]

@ Arvin....it takes quite a bit to scare me at pushing 70, but you're doing a remarkable job, my friend.....More, please!

[@KillersFromTheWest]

This was explained really well, thank you Arvin.

[@elizabethmead2852]

Absolutely fascinating. I watched this over and over to absorb it, i even took notes to help my retention. Thank you, sir, very impressive explanation.

[@Tiisiphone]

Best explaination of the Teller-Ulam model I ever found online.

[@specialorder9379]

Wow, such an absolutely incredible video! You did an amazing job explaining how everything works! Thanks for taking the time and putting this together. 👍🏻

[@yesicanhearyouclemfandango]

It's amazing that human beings will use their intellect to devise things like this, purely to destroy each other.

[@Temporary.life4321]

Wow this is the most clear, simplified and complete explanation.

[@syntheticteapot]

I love this guy's confidence and information but i especially love his hairstyle. This was an awesome quick explanation of a complicated scientific process to introduce non scientists (like me, a graphic a graphic designer) to an interesting yet terrifying subject. Subscribed immediately.

[@Youss45unreleased]

You're beautiful

[@Remnantsf]

BEST 10 MINUTES IN THE DAY, Thanks for the video Arvin ach 😀👍

[@gearhead1302]

Really detailed great video. Kind of amazing that all happens before it gets blown apart.

[@ephennell4ever]

It's all about the speed difference between thermal/chemical reactions and radiation/nuclear reactions.

[@diddykong9366]

It just baffles me how unstable it all gets from such a small amount of material needed. Just shows the power of nuclear energy like fission and fusion have.

[@HawthorneHillNaturePreserve]

Love your work and your videos! You have a great way of explaining complicated topics. You are very easy to understand. Thanks 😊

[@todabsolute]

Hard to imagine that 2 pounds of mass can be converted in so much energy

[@davidh9844]

Well, the whole point is that you need to start off with a hell of a lot of energy in the first place.

[@MrJoJI]

Just imagine what a 20kg of uranium would do

[@Kutchy7765]

Umm E=mc² duhh

[@todabsolute]

@@Kutchy7765 umm quantum mechanics duhh

[@Kutchy7765]

@@todabsolute umm nahh, for example 1 ml of 1°C water and 1 ml of -1°C water would not merge into 2 ml of 0°C water

[@jhonhomerrana9080]

this is much scarrier than the scarriest horror movie I've ever watched.

[@Rob-tx3jl]

Yes because horror movies are just that, movies. They’re not real, but this is very real and very dangerous.

[@pddrogcruz]

I think it's fascinating, though. Not the part of murder and death, but the science behind all of it. The fission and fusion show us e=mc² working, that's just beyond thinking to me, nuclear forces are amazing.

[@singularityphoenixx]

The nuke is so extremely terrifying that no world powers have gone to war with each other since its development.

[@DontKnow-lz1vh]

@@singularityphoenixx it really do prevent us from war, but once it do happen it will be really terrifying.

[@TH-1207]

You did clear one thing up for me. I always wondered where the hydrogen cam from for the thermonuclear bomb.

[@californiaslastgasp6847]

Good video but I think that you should have gone into more detail about the foam and it’s purpose. It isn’t styrofoam, for one. If it was, then the US government wouldn’t have had a program to reengineer the foam since they forgot how it was originally made (see FOGBANK). You accurately explained about its partial purpose but the other purpose of the foam is to minutely slow the travel of radiation coming from the fission bomb. The presence of the foam instead of air gives the fusion bomb enough time to reach critical rather than air. With air, the the fusion bomb wouldn’t work properly. I think that you should have used the lingo “reflector” instead of mirror, too. But other than that, great video. It’s probably one of the best on YT.

[@ArvinAsh]

Come on now, you don't want me to give away all the secrets do you? There are bad guys watching too!

[@kevincrosby1760]

@@ArvinAsh How much time did we spend just figuring out how to actually machine Plutonium? What are the specific assay, purity, and alloy numbers? What does the finished pit even LOOK like? Think you are probably OK...

[@TripAMD]

Best breakdown ive ever seen. Great video.

[@Ehsan793]

I still does not understand why this youtube channel does not have 2 to 3 million subscribers.

[@ephennell4ever]

MIBs, of course!

[@zeze_5678]

So if it's possible to use, for example hypothesis, oxygen that would make the bomb even more devastating?

[@_DZ_UR_]

Maybe... perhaps we could compress them , so condensed That their pressure would rise significantly. and start the game with an electric ignition source, or strengthen them more.

[@d.cypher2920]

This is an excellent, yet short comprehensive tutorial about a very complex and extremely difficult process for anyone to understand properly .

[@kevinmoore2501]

Great explanation. Added to my favorites. Would it be at all possible to make a video on electro-magnetic radiation?

[@ArvinAsh]

Yep, already made one recently. This is one our best ones, imho: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fISoe2ePgb2nqpo

[@kevinmoore2501]

Gotcha. Thanks, for responding.

[@Teknofobe]

"Humans haven't progressed from throwing stones at each other. We've just got more efficient at it".

[@bakon3226]

“We’re not throwing stones, we’re throwing stuff a lot more powerful,”

[@Teknofobe]

@@bakon3226 And a lot further too. No hiding behind a tree with these bad boys. The trees become collateral damage. And we are still slinging thing's at eachother. As u said though. Throwing more devastating things. And further.

[@christinemills4094]

Hi Arvin, excellent video! I hate to be nitpicky, but it’s not exactly accurate to say that D-T fusion releases more energy than fission. U235 fission releases about 200MeV of energy per event, with Pu239 being a tad higher at 210MeV, while D-T fusion only releases about 17.6MeV per event. But the difference is with hydrogen fusion you can pretty much cram in as much fuel as you want and it’ll continue to undergo fusion for as long as temperature and pressure is maintained (ditto the secondary fission of the fusion capsule casing), while with pure fission you’re limited by the amount of fissile material you can keep in a supercritical state long enough to participate in the fission chain reaction. Once the fuel expands to k

[@ArvinAsh]

Yes, you are correct. Good analysis!

[@christinemills4094]

@@ArvinAsh Thanks, Arvin :) Actually, it turns out *I* got some things wrong, too... Ivy King wasn't the largest pure fission device ever detonated, that honor goes to the UK's Orange Herald test, at 750 KT. THAT one was the "science experiment." The Ivy King device was actually designed to be deliverable, although the construction was so finicky (92 point implosion system and thin shell core) it's likely they wouldn't have bothered.

[@Malpheron]

@@christinemills4094 Also Ivy mike went boom, so they knew that the 2 stage super was probably the way to go.

[@christinemills4094]

@@Malpheron Exactly!

[@LeTtRrZ]

An excellent description of a fusion bomb. I had assumed a fusion bomb was actually a bunch of pellets being fired into a plutonium core at the same moment, with a spherical casing containing hydrogen around it, but this seems much more efficient. I suspect that there are many possible designs for a fusion bomb. Overall, the more I learn about nukes, the scarier they seem to become. There is an excellent Kurzgesagt video about what would happen if a nuke went off in a city, and the scenario is terrifying. On a more humanitarian note, I wonder if that lithium deuteride material could have a legitimate application in fusion reactor technology.

[@raaston9761]

it dose actually as a national ignition facility uses it for there tests

[@drtidrow]

They do plan on using lithium as the coolant for tokamak-style fusion power reactors, specifically because it can breed tritium in addition to keeping the reactor vessel cool.

[@nickhowatson4745]

if you put a pellet of tritium/deuterium within the center of the uranium/plutonium sphere, you get whats called a "boosted fission bomb".

[@drtidrow]

@@nickhowatson4745 Usually they introduce it in gaseous form, and serves as an easy way to vary the yield: the more D-T gas they pump in to the core, the more boosting happens, and the higher the yield. As I understand it, they keep the gases in separate cylinders outside the core, and only inject it in right before detonation. The tritium cylinder needs to be replaced on a regular basis, as the tritium slowly decays to helium-3.

[@crazymeteorites3653]

And then there is Anti-Matter 🤯 just wait until some-one makes a bomb out of that.

[@jacobmasters438]

I have always wondered how such a horrific weapon works. Now, I have an solid inclination on how Thermonuclear weapons work. Excellent work!

[@abdelrahmanmohamed7553]

Thank you sir for the great explanation , the best I have ever seen

[@Neo34014]

That’s… ridiculously amazing… now I can explain this same thing to my school in tomorrow’s physics lecture. My teacher assigned me job to carry out nuclear physics while I like astrophysics ;( but thanks to you I’ll explain all bombs and how they work with relation of E=MC^2.. I knew about atomic,nuclear and thermonuclear bombs but now I know about hydrogen bombs too.. my stupid self till the point thought that hydrogen bombs are nothing but plasma reactors which when exploded, releases a huge amount of energy due to tritium isotope.. I didn’t know how plasma come in it, but now I know it’s complex system of tritium,deuterium,nuclear fission,nuclear fusion,uranium 235/plutonium 241, berrylium, foam and lastly E=MC^2 but the main thing is, it takes 600 billionth of a second is just.. hats off

[@buckhorncortez]

Then you really need the correct equation for changes happening that fast. The correct equation is E² = (pc)² + (mc²)²

[@jamescollinson2456]

@@buckhorncortez p = momentum in kilogram-meter per second (kg·m/s) c = speed of light through the aether or vacuum = 299,792,458 meters per second (m/s) m = mass in kilogram (kg)

[@shingshongshamalama]

I feel it's worth noting that the mass converted to energy during the fission and fusion reactions within the weapon aren't simply turned into "energy" as people might imagine. It's a combination of free neutrons thrown off the reacting material and also high-energy wave radiation, like gamma and x-rays. This energy turns the entire bomb casing into superheated plasma hotter than the core of the Sun, and also does pretty much the same to the surrounding air and anything else within the immediate vicinity. Which then rapidly tries to expand due to thermal dynamics and causes an enormous overpressure wave when it compresses the air away from it.

[@RME76048]

Confused here... what do you propose that gamma and x-rays are if not pure energy? They are massless photons, no?

[@RME76048]

Also -- and correct me if I am wrong -- the primary output that drives the blast effect are x-rays. At ordinary temperatures air is relatively transparent to x-rays, but at ever increasing temperatures it becomes fairly opaque to x-rays. The x-rays heat the air and that is the source of the expanding fireball. In an interesting way, it is the *cooling* of the whole affair that creates the fireball. The bomb's casing has pretty much nothing to do with the effect.

[@seanmurphy1946]

Great job explaining all this without being confusing because of technical bloviating

[@ephennell4ever]

Except that without the 'technical bloviating' too many people are now thinking that almost *anyone* who wants to can put together an H-bomb and fry a whole city! I can hear it now ... thousands of people telling others 'this video online tells you *exactly* how to build an H-bomb!' Oy! 🙄

[@ahmadsambodo2464]

This man gives a very detail explanation, and I listen very carefully like I want to create one tonight

[@letruongquy7956]

Can I borrow a bag of uranium powder?

[@shreejithnair2250]

Doing my homework before watching Oppenheimer!

[@StephenJohnson-jb7xe]

For anyone interested Scott Manley also has a very good series of videos describing both how nuclear energy (and weapons) works and was developed

[@Ohlawd1119]

This is a great video. Not a guy talking in front of the camera all the time and great animations!

[@thepurpleufo]

I've seen lots of videos that purport to explain a complex subject, and most fail miserably. But this video is great...and I feel that I now have a good (although basic) understanding of how the hydrogen bomb works. Thank you. P.S. I don't think I'll be building my own hydrogen bomb any time soon.

[@Federer935]

Should there have been a 'don't try this at home warning at the start? Ha Ha

[@bizichyld]

So…how does the sun’s core produce fusion if the temperature is only 15 million degrees, but 100 million is required? Is it the added effect of the immense pressure?

[@80sandretrogubbins25]

I'm no expert but I would guess that is the reason.