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hydrogen bomb

Bomb that works on the principle of nuclear fusion. Large-scale explosion results from the thermonuclear release of energy when hydrogen nuclei are fused to form helium nuclei. The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Ocean by the USA in 1952.

The constant release of energy through nuclear fusion is the continuing reaction in the Sun and other stars; it can be duplicated by the triggering of tritium (hydrogen isotope of atomic weight 3.0170) by an ordinary atomic bomb.



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