How Does an Atom Bomb Work? And why don't more countries have it?

At 5:30AM, dawn on July 16, 1945 near a small town called Alamagordo New Mexico, the course of human history was changed. The first atomic bomb was detonated that day, and sealed the fate of humanity.
It took the work of many people to accomplish this engineering feat, but the principle leader of the Manhattan project, and the man considered the Father of the atomic bomb was Robert Oppenheimer. After witnessing its awesome power on that fateful day, Oppenheimer was so taken aback, he quoted a phrase from the sacred Hindu text Bhagavad Gita - “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
We know its awesome power, but how exactly does an Atom bomb work?
An atomic bomb works on the principle that when you break up the nucleus of an Atom, a large amount of energy is released. Why? Because it takes a large amount of energy to keep the nucleus bound together. When you split it apart, that energy is released.
The analogy is like a stack of bowling balls. If you were to shoot a ball into the stack, all the energy that you expended in stacking them together would be released. You can think of the nucleus of an atom being similarly “stacked” together. The larger the nucleus, the easier it is to split it apart.
Scientists chose the biggest and heaviest nucleus that is found in nature to be the best candidate for splitting -Uranium. Uranium is unique in that one of its isotopes is the only naturally occurring element that is capable of sustaining a nuclear fission reaction.
A Uranium atom has 92 protons, and 146 neutrons, together giving it an atomic mass of 238 - or U238 -- the heaviest naturally occurring element on the periodic table. U238 however is generally stable in nature, and is not fissionable or “splittable” because it is so stable.
A very small portion of Uranium, when it is mined, is in the form its isotope U235. This isotope has the same 92 protons, but only 143 neutrons, or 3 fewer than U238. U235 is highly unstable. Which makes it highly fissionable or splittable. When Uranium 235 is slammed by a neutron, it becomes Uranium 236. U236 is so unstable that is almost immediately splits into two much more stable atoms, Krypton and Barium. Sometimes it can split into two other elements as well.
In the process of splitting and creating 2 more stable atoms, a whole bunch of energy is released, along with 3 neutrons. These 3 neutrons fly out and slam more U235 atoms. And a thus a chain reaction occurs causing more and more U235 to be split and ultimately causes a huge explosion.
So what’s the big deal? Why don’t all countries have an atom bomb.
The problem is that natural Uranium contains only 0.7% of this the U235 isotope. And a whole bunch of it is needed to make even one atomic bomb. So mined natural Uranium has to be “enriched” to get U235. Sometimes this is done by turning it into a gas, and letting the lighter gas flow through a one way barrier so that it rises to the top - because U235 is lighter than U238.
Another engineering challenge is to create a vessel with the correct shape and material to contain the neutrons after fissioning, so that they do not escape, but rather cause more atoms to fission. So usually a spheroid shaped holding vessel is made to contain the fissionable material. And it is lined with a special mirror so as to force the neutrons back into the fissionable material rather than escape the vessel.
Then the correct amount of fissionable material has to be placed inside this vessel. This is called a super-critical mass. This is the minimum amount of material needed for a chain reaction to occur.
This conventional explosive charge inside the container initiates the chain reaction to produce your typical mushroom cloud.
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We need to thank our lucky stars that although the concept of an atom bomb is simple, the process of actually creating the bomb is not so simple.
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Yes indeed. An average person's mass, if converted to pure energy, would be enough to completely destroy earth.

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If all energy could be released by anti-matter which breaks up stable bonds 100%, then even tennis ball sized matter would release greater energy than this nuclear bomb. But luckily we can't make anti-matter yet. ;D

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The only thing a-bombs have in common with chernobyl (and basically nuclear power plants in general) is the fuel and the radioactive risk, but work differently.

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I was just curious after watching a video about Oppenheimer's interview. The guy reading his face mentioned the feeling of the Sublime, and said feeling of the sublime crept into me, giving me a curiosity to know exactly what causes such a destructive force.

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How do people go from a tiny atom to an entire city gone

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Yes, that is the astounding result of Einstein's famous equation E = MC(2). A tiny amount of mass has incredible amount of energy. If the mass of any human body was converted to energy using this formula, it would pulverize the whole earth!

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Creating it might not be simple, but it just goes to show how just one little reaction can cause a chainreaction which makes such a huge explosion. Kind of beautiful.

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To me the most interesting question is where the energy originally came from to form such heavy unstable nucleii. It's now known that the answer is the gravitational collapse of the core of a supernova and some of the material is released into space when neutron stars collide and fling a bit of it off. BTW, in the case of the plutonium bomb I'd use the term critical density rather than critical mass because the idea has to be to reduce the gaps between atoms so that neutrons escaping a fission _have_ to collide with another nucleus (no gaps, at least from the centre of the core to the external surface).

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Imagine if atomic bomb turned out to be even more powerful than expected and testing it might have been the end of the world!

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Yes, in fact this was one of the fears that scientists had before testing in New Mexico. One scientist speculated that earth's atmosphere could be destroyed by an atomic bomb.

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@@ArvinAsh I'm sorry that I'm like this but every time I see this story I want to point out that it wasn't a concern going into the actual test. At some point during the Manhattan Project it was postulated that an explosion with this sort of heat and pressure might kick off a self-sustaining reaction with nitrogen in the atmosphere, but many calculations were done because of this concern and it was determined far before the Trinity test that it was impossible. People usually make it sound like they were taking a gigantic gamble with the entire planet, but they weren't. Interestingly, the scientist that came up with the idea was none other than Edward Teller, the so-called father of the hydrogen bomb.

[@ArvinAsh]

@@coughsyrupconnoisseur Thanks for pointing that out. History does sometimes tend to get distorted and exaggerated. Take the example of Christopher Columbus - it is not true that most people at that time thought the earth was flat.

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Hi, thank you for the very educational video. is there any chance you will make another video about hydrogen bomb? I still yet to understand the physic behind nuclear fusion

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Jason Suteja Yep. It’s on my list my friend.

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Educational. Thank you!

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Thanks Thomas!

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I never really understood this process..... until now. Thank you, Well done

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I can understand the process, I mean I get that. But what I don't get is how did "THEY" come up with the process. Seriously???

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@@crazyheart1976 By experimentation among a plethora of the finest minds in their fields of scientific study and the application of immense engineering and material resources.

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Why does a guy from Longford want to know about nukes? Trying to blow up the Dáil? If so that would be a waste of good fissile material.

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Dankeschön

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Lol...you didn't know this was a public safety announcement video, did you?

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Thanks my friend.

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Nuclear weapons don't use the gun-type method any more - they use huge quantities of fissionable material for a comparatively low yield. Little Boy, as dropped on Hiroshima was a gun-type weapon, however Fat Man (the bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later) was an implosion bomb, which works by simultaneously detonating explosive charges around a sub-critical sphere (now hollow) to rapidly compress it and make it super-critical. The explosive yield from Little Boy was 15kt from 64kgs of U-235, whereas the yield from Fat Man was 21kt for roughly 6.5kgs of plutonium. That's a very simplified description. Modern thermonuclear weapons use these implosion bombs as the primary to trigger fusion in the secondary which houses a container of deuterium. FYI...it's funny seeing all the 'FBI watch list' comments, but in reality the notion that watching this or reading material on nuclear weapons will get you on such a list is ridiculous. Just creating the material is such an incredibly complex, costly and time consuming process, even for some of the most brilliant minds, that the FBI need not worry that folks relying on KZbin as their source material are in any way capable of turning it into a weapon

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Correct. Gun method is easier to visualize for most viewers. Concept is the same. Besides, we don't want to give away all the secrets now, do we? BTW, the FBI comments are hilarious, but I'm sure all in jest.

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Something that small makes something so big, that’s crazy

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So the luckiest outcome is being far away enough to not feel anything from the blast or be close enough that you die immediately. This is scary af but fascinating at the same time.

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Thanks my friend!

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The Uranium split is mostly Krypton and Barium.. often it splits more unevenly into other elements like Iodine, etc

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Stable lead

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@@vimlatiwari302 No, lead is not a fission product.

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Extremely clear explanation, easily digestible for ma lazy brainz. Thanks.

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before President Roosevelt left for the Yalta conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in early February 1945, he was shown a forty-page memorandum drafted by General MacArthur outlining a Japanese offer for surrender almost identical with the terms later concluded by President Truman. Trohan related that he was given a copy of this communication by Admiral William Leahy who swore him to secrecy with the pledge not to release the story until the war was over. Trohan honored his pledge and reported his story in the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Times-Herald on August 19, 1945.

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1:51 for my history homework, do you add the protons and neutrons or something else?

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This was such a brilliant presentation of how it works, thank you Arvin.

[@ArvinAsh]

Glad you enjoyed it! Be sure to check out the Hydrogen bomb video as well. It is even more detailed.

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Can any one tell me Where does the first neutron come from to start the reaction????🙏🙏 As shown in 2:10??🙏🙏

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I just wanna know how a nuclear reactor works Ok NSA or something.

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That is on my list for a future video. Stay tuned.

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[@ArvinAsh]

Thanks my friend. See you in the next video.

[@sharonr2121]

So, as a summary, the beginning explosion is caused from a uranium U235 atom being hit by a neutron. Then it becomes U236, which is unstable, so it splits apart into two different atoms, and also releases energy. Those other atoms are also split, and the process continues, making a chain reaction of energy explosions. I think. If I'm wrong, correct me.

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And it breaks into 3 neutrons witch do it

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Nice! See you in the next video. We usually post new videos every Thursday at 2 PM New York time. Thank you.

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Sir how it follows e=mcc. Does it spit out with this speed after being hit

[@sebastiannazarevscky3496]

hello! can someone please explain how the unstable nuclei spit out neutrons. i thought in radioactive decay, you can have alpha radiation, which is a rogue helium nucleus, beta radiation, which is an electron or a positron, or gama radiation, which is made of photons. so i'm guessing it has something to do with alpha decay, maybe. can someone please clarify? :)

[@Evan_Bell]

There are several other forms of decay aside from alpha, beta and gamma. Spontaneous fission, electron capture and neutron emission are some examples.

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@@Evan_Bell thank you for your concise answer!

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Thanks so much now we’re gonna build one with my friends ☺️

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"now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" and since then the population has more than tripled, there has been no major world war and we have something that could destroy incoming asteroids...

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Yeah but the bomb also releases radiation so..

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@@humanman2358 Radiation isn't evil, and is all around us. Still no extinction level events.

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After watching like 20 videos this video taught me exactly what i wanted to know

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Thanks. Be sure to check out the Hydrogen bomb video which I made later. I think you will find that helpful.

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I have a question, so it can be done with any element in the periodic table but they choose U because it’s the heaviest nucleus?

[@ArvinAsh]

Correct, because it contains more neutrons and protons than any other substance, it is most fissionable or splittable. It's isotope is the most unstable because it has a lower energy state when a neutron hits it, and splits it into two other elements. It also releases more neutrons upon splitting and can thus cause more nuclei to split.

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Ginioreos No worries. Nobody can build the bomb with the info that’s in the video.

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Great video

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This question i have, is why the core doesn't melt and let neutrons escape before it exploids?

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Hi again, So I'm making a school project on this topic, so is it possible for me to make a atomic bomb at home without exploding it?

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Sir that starting 1 neutron from where it will come ?and how it's trigger ? And what's the speed of first start neutron?

[@ArvinAsh]

See my explanation in several threads here including the one pinned up top.

[@philkarn1761]

Nit: when fission occurs, it's not always into barium and krypton. There are many ways it can split into quite a few chemical elements and isotopes. See the Wikipedia article Nuclear Fission Products.

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[@buzaldrin8086]

> near a small town called Alamagordo New Mexico The 1945 Trinity test took place on what today is the White Sands Missile Test Range. Trinity Site is roughly 75 miles from Alamogordo. There are other, smaller towns closer to Trinity Site, but Alamogordo is the closest town if any real size. In 1940, the population was about 4,000. Today it's about 30,000.

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Buz Aldrin Correct. It’s the closest town someone would see on a map.

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@@ArvinAsh The earliest Downwinders: www.atomicheritage.org/history/tularosa-basin-downwinders

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That's a very interesting read. Thanks for that.

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This is the first and last explanation of the atom bomb I will ever watch

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Thanks for making this as simple as possible. If it's difficult to get enough uranium to make an atomic bomb, what else can you use if you want to make a crude atomic bomb? I mean one that's not as powerful as a real atomic bomb, but powerful enough to stop people from messing with you.

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It’s been two years, did you successfully create a bomb yet?

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I'm learning about this in chemistry right now and you explain it the best!

[@ArvinAsh]

Thanks. Glad you liked it.

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The best book I've ever read on the history of the atomic bomb is "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes! It explains in detail how the Manhattan Project bomb came to be.

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Thanks!

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Great video!

[@ArvinAsh]

XJLuxury Thanks! See you in the next video.

[@higorss]

My only question is: What makes the chain reaction stop? Why it doesn't continue forever?

[@ArvinAsh]

Bomb runs out of fuel. Uranium or Plutonium.

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Awesome! 💥

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I came here during watching Radioactive which is a biopic on Marie Curie :D

[@Indrid__Cold]

Of all the thermonuclear weapons ever produced by the U.S., my personal favorite by far, is the B41 (Y1 version). Based on the Bassoon Bikini test, this three stage weapon had a total yield of TWENTY-FIVE MEGATONS, and in its Y2 "clean" version, was the most efficient thermonuclear weapon ever built. Its weight to yield ratio was 5.2MT/ton. Best of all, the Y1 bomb contained a big dirty U238 tamper. You see, although U238 will not fission if used in a regular fission weapon, it fissions like CRAZY when exposed to the fast neutrons of a fusion explosion. In the case of the Y1 version, you got about half of your nuclear yield from that big dirty U238 tamper. That means about twelve megatons of yield came from fission. Just imagine dropping this bomb while set for ground-burst. TONS of earth would be sucked into the mushroom cloud and mixed with fission products of the tamper. This would create a soup of highly radioactive fission byproducts that would blanket the surrounding landscape for tens of miles. You'd also have a ground zero that would be a monster sized glass trivvet about five miles wide. In the ninteen-sixties, the U.S. had FIVE HUNDRED of these bad boys in the stockpile. That equals over twelve GIGATONS of explosive yield (about as much as a medium/smallish asteroid would make)! Dropping these all over the Soviet Union would have created a real nuclear winter! You would probably have had a mass extinction event with no sunlight hitting the northern hemisphere for a couple of years, and VERY grey skies in the southern hemisphere. Today, even if the U.S. shot it's entire nuclear wad, you would see a total yield of no more than two point three gigatons. This would probably cause nuclear dusk for six months, but NOT the nuclear winter Carl Sagan tried to sell the world. All of these amazing weapons were retired by 1976.

[@kamranmahmood2986]

Really well said... Great work... Recognition from India... Thank you

[@ArvinAsh]

Thank you India!

[@mickkennedy1344]

Protons repel each other, force them together and they attract.....then bind to each other

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It’s impossible to believe the splitting of an atom can wipe out a whole city

[@ArvinAsh]

It sure is. One atom won't wipe out a city, but trillions of atoms splitting, like in an atomic bomb will.

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@@ArvinAsh would it be visible if a single atom was to be split?

[@rr_gaming4954]

@@Markussiemens658 Imagine a nuclear bomb but trillions of times smaller, there's your answer

[@brianweiss1403]

I already new this

[@TheEthalon]

The bowling ball analogy doesn’t make any sense.. would make more sense stacking them upwards (gravitational potential energy resembling the energy holding atoms together)

[@juiceykouture527]

If I ever had to take a test on this I’m going to write youtube35...!

[@itstimeforafuckingcrusade]

0:24 *Robert E.O Speedwagon*

[@ahhshxshdnice2960]

Nice video +1 subscriber