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

Hydrogen bomb how does it work? The bomb on Hiroshima released the energy equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT. The first hydrogen bomb released the energy equivalent of 10,000,000 tons of TNT.
While the atomic bomb like the one that was dropped on Hiroshima worked on the principle of releasing energy through the splitting of atoms - also called fission, a hydrogen bomb does something that releases even more energy, and that is it fuses atoms together.
Fusion is even more powerful than fission. It is the same process that powers our sun.
How does fusion work? The fusion bomb creates energy by combining two isotopes of hydrogen called deuterium and Tritium to create helium. A large amount of energy is released when these two isotopes fuse together to form helium because a helium atom has much less energy than these two isotopes combined. This excess energy is released in the explosion. Lithium-deuteride is what most hydrogen bombs today use as their fuel.
But how does the process of fusion actually occur? Ordinarily the nuclei of two atoms cannot be combined because these nuclei have strong positive electrical charges and repel each other. It turns out that if you increase the temperature by millions of degrees, it is possible to combine nuclei together. The temperatures needed are astronomical - higher than even that at the center of the sun - 100 million degrees Celsius.
This is when the electrons orbiting the nuclei is stripped away from the nucleus and the nuclei and electrons are floating around freely in a kind of high temperature soup. At this temperature, the nuclei can get very close to each other and the strong nuclear strong force binds the protons and neutrons together to form a helium nucleus and a free neutron.
So how is a temperature of 100 million degrees achieved? This is where the fission or atomic bomb inside the hydrogen bomb enclosure comes in. The purpose of the fission bomb is to to heat up the fusion reaction to this 100 million of degrees. A hydrogen bomb is three bombs in one - an ordinary chemical bomb, a fission bomb, and a fusion bomb. The chemical bomb initiates the fission bomb which initiates the fusion bomb.
A small atomic bomb is located at the top of the casing. The top of the sphere contains conventional chemical explosives surrounding a sphere of beryllium mirror casing, inside of which is a smaller uranium or plutonium sphere about 4 to 6 inches in diameter. Below this atomic bomb is the hydrogen or fusion bomb. It consists of a cylinder made of uranium, the fuel for the fusion reaction, lithium deuteride sits inside the cylinder. And at the core of this cylinder sits a rod of plutonium.
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In between the fission and fusion bomb is Styrofoam. First, the fission bomb is detonated by exploding conventional chemical bombs in sequence, this forces the sphere of plutonium 239 or Uranium 235 to implode on itself. The implosion of this material creates a critical mass which results in an atomic explosion.
This fission explosion creates high energy gamma rays and X-rays which heat up the Styrofoam turning it into plasma. The plasma reflects off the beryllium-lined walls and focuses its energy on the fusion cylinder. These x-rays travel at the speed of light, so they reach the hydrogen fuel sooner than the physical shock wave from atomic bomb. This is important because if the shock wave reached there first, the fusion bomb would be blown apart before it could create fusion reactions.
The heat and pressure of the plasma compresses the fusion cylinder causing the lithium-deuteride to react. This releases tritium. The Tritium and deuterium fuse to form Helium and more neutrons. The neutrons cause the uranium casing and plutonium rod to undergo more fission reactions. This causes more pressure on the lithium-deuteride, producing more fusion, and releasing more neutrons which cause more fission. This positive feedback loop of fission-fusion-fission-fusion reactions goes back and forth until a huge explosion occurs ripping everything apart.
All of these events happen in about 600 billionths of a second. The result is a huge explosion. And where does all this energy come from? The sum of all atoms after the explosion would be less than the sum of all the atoms before the explosion. This mass is converted to energy using Einstein’s famous equation E=MC^2.
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And exactly how much mass is converted to energy? To give you an idea, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima converted 700 miligrams of mass into energy. The total uranium used was 55 lbs. A hydrogen bomb however converts about a kilogram or 2 lbs of mass to pure energy. But in order to convert this much, you have to start with about 140 kilos or 300 lbs. of hydrogen.
Only six countries have such bombs -China, France, India, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States.

[@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]

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[@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.

[@righe8701]

Same, I started with Veritasium explaining Oppenheimer better then wanted to know about the H bomb haha

[@eddie4867]

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

[@tbn22]

A nuclear reaction is not chemical.

[@FJoeB1998]

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

[@logicplague2077]

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

[@Danuxsy]

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

[@logicplague2077]

@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.

[@tewfeek8234]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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*

[@indilandojones]

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"...

[@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!🙂

[@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

[@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🤣🤣🤣

[@LOSTfan420Locke]

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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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. 👌🏻

[@paulcooper1046]

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

[@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 😈

[@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

[@returnoftheking7008]

Oppenheimer brought me here

[@shreejithnair2250]

Doing my homework before watching Oppenheimer!

[@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.

[@mabsrawr10]

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

[@Wot50202]

anonymous mofo Aladeen 🤣🤣

[@jona.scholt4362]

Poor nuclear Nadal

[@hijamsanjitkumar364]

Yeah this is round shape so it is not scary

[@yourcommentmightnotworksop9987]

where is NUCLEAR NADAL the PROCURER of WOMAN

[@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

[@carlosalbert7667]

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

[@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.

[@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...

[@rodneyalexander4006]

😆

[@rrock2025]

Me: ok

[@PSchearer]

You need weapons-grade styrofoam. :-)

[@C0ttageChees]

This is one of the best presentations I've ever seen. Nice job and thank you :)

[@ocjok3r]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@yuumijungle548]

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

[@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,

[@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.

[@danielahaidacher3747]

Super interesting. Love the science behind weapons. There´s a lot more to learn. Nice explanation and also easy to understand. :)

[@alfonsodacullo3040]

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

[@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!

[@nordattack]

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

[@kevinharbeson8777]

You did a great job explaining and animating.

[@shannon3464]

Thanks for breaking it down in more simple terms ❤

[@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.

[@alexae1367]

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"

[@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!

[@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

[@raymondingram2539]

Knowing how to make a nuclear bomb doesn't mean you would be able to make one.

[@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

[@yousefal-nassar7279]

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

[@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.

[@AzeKannagi]

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

[@j3an725]

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

[@johnbro6261]

Excellent. The understanding becomes clearer of both the use and hope to never have to.

[@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.

[@Teknophobe]

"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,”

[@Teknophobe]

@@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.

[@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.

[@Piplupo]

Great vid! Thank you for the explanation. This will help me in my essay im writing about atomic bombs.

[@shagandeepsingh5267]

I am so impressed by the science… i watch this video one time a day for sure!

[@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! ?

[@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.

[@lorneschalm5056]

Excellent video and totally astounding that people figured this out.

[@marlonmendez5176]

Fantastic explanation! Thank you!

[@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

[@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.

[@benjaminshiels1824]

Fascinating. Thank you! 👍

[@nyujay2010]

Amazing explanation, thank you!

[@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

[@senseiseagull]

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

[@leighharvey9150]

You make it seem so simple I feel like I could make it myself.

[@no-bozos]

Cool video. I always thought the heavy hydrogen core was in the middle of the fission bomb and would explode inward to make the fusion occur. Now it makes sense why fusion driven scientists use lasers to create a plasma field to sequence the pellet they use.

[@martinofgliwice1486]

you wouldn't fit much fusion fuel this way. but this is actually common place. if you put some deuterium-tritium mix into the fissionable core, even imperfect implosion is sufficient to ignite this D-T mix (but not pure deuterium or deuterium-lithium mixes). D-T fusion releases very energetic neutrons that fission plutonium very effectively even if the core has not imploded perfectly and starts to dissasemble prematurely.

[@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

[@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.

[@inlivingcolor...abroad6099]

Who else is here b/c of Oppenheimer movie? It’s mind boggling to me that they are 10,000 of these already in the world. That’s absolutely terrifying.

[@mosedrogba]

"These things d'ont just kill, they annihilate." That last sentence was so strong and accurate.

[@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

[@karrensusan4825]

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

[@bigboicreme]

Wish your videos were longer! Great content

[@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)

[@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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@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.

[@ramakrishna5480]

Most satisfying video i have seen in a long time

[@Jack-er2uj]

Thanks for the knowledge on how these destructive things work. It's very scary 🙌

[@HawthorneHillNaturePreserve]

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

[@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...

[@AlexK-ew1mo]

I've wondered about the science of this, but was afraid to Google it. Thankfully it just showed up on my feed.

[@USViper]

The "Styrofoam" you mentioned is called "Fogbank." A highly classified material. Fogbank is an aerogel material which acts as an interstage material in a nuclear warhead; i.e., a material designed to become a superheated plasma following the detonation of the weapon's fission stage, the plasma then triggering the fusion-stage detonation.

[@YouTube_user3333]

Finally someone who can clearly explain this topic 👏

[@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!

[@paulanderson7796]

Thank you for avoidning the ghastly jump cuts so beloved of so many KZbinrs.

[@MessinAbout80]

Really well presented and informative

[@mattcero1]

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

[@KillersFromTheWest]

This was explained really well, thank you Arvin.

[@spaceman081447]

The nuclear explosion shown at the very beginning of the video and captioned, August 6, 1945, was actually the TRINITY test device detonated at Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. At 6:16, Dr.Ash says that the conventional chemical explosives detonate "in sequence." This is not quite right. They actually detonate simultaneously. This is essential so that the sphere of fissile material (either plutonium or uranium) is compressed evenly from all sides, otherwise criticality will not be attained.

[@henrymaggard1719]

Thanks for this video it's so clear now

[@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.

[@d.cypher2920]

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

[@darthvicious9447]

I always knew that a fission reaction was needed to set off a hydrogen bomb, but i never knew the actual mechanics of how it worked.

[@aaronkowalewski659]

It's absolutely amazing how people have figured out how to make that change reaction work. I hope to God that there's never another nuclear weapon used on people again. But I love watching these things explode. I'm truly amazed by the design and thought that had to go into these weapons.

[@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.

[@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. 👍🏻

[@YendorSignemeck]

For those of you worried about this revelation of nuclear weapon design being used by bad actors, you can rest easy about this video. This is still a relatively low resolution picture of the design, for one thing. Plus, it takes an army of workers, a fortune in refined uranium, incredibly sophisticated metallurgical and chemical handling, and rare, expensive and complex equipment just to refine your isotopes. And that’s not counting the breeder reactors you’ll need for plutonium. Then you need sophisticated engineering and machining skills for the building of the bomb. And paramount is the incredible sophistication of the timing of your detonators for the conventional explosives implosion. Even if you could somehow gather all the resources and organize your labor to accomplish all this, every step of your (HIGHLY illegal) journey would be observed by the security apparati of the US and the world. Heck, even nuclear scientists in rogue nations often get assassinated by regulator nations. Bottom line: you can’t do it. And neither can the terrorist next door.

[@jameshaxby5434]

I learned an interesting thing. During the 1950's when we were terrified of Nuclear war, the U.S. didn't have a practical nuclear deterrent. By then, atomic bombs had gotten absolutely huge, weighing several tons each. So they designed the B-47 bomber to carry it. But the B-47 proved unreliable, and was taken out of service, leaving us no way to deliver any of the nukes that we had at that time.

[@YFZriderdude15]

That's interesting

[@Tiisiphone]

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

[@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.

[@jonathondelemos4609]

Is this fission explosion (initial explosion) very* briefly stifled to allow for the fusion temperatures to be reached and explode both fusion and fission reactions simultaneously?

[@foxxen7287]

I'll never look at styrofoam the same way again.