What is the difference between nuclear and thermonuclear bombs?

Answer 1

The only difference is the set of reactions that produce the explosion.
In a nuclear bomb, masses of uranium-235 are forced together to form a "critical mass" which causes an explosion via an uncontrolled fission chain reaction. In a thermonuclear bomb, small U-235 nuclear bomblets create the intense heat necessary to start an uncontrolled fusion chain reaction.

Answer 2

i believe a theromonuclear bomb is about 100x more powerful than a nuclear bomb. The bombs dropped on Japan during WW II were nuclear bombs but the ones the US has now are thermonuclear. The Russians dropped the largest most powerful theromnuclear bomb ever at I believe 50 kilotons in the early 1960s.

Answer 3

An atomic bomb is a bomb that produces an explosion through the nuclear fission of Uranium 235 or Plutonium 239. A thermonuclear bomb (also known as hydrogen bomb) is a bomb that produces an explosion through the fusion of Hydrogen 2 and 3 (deuterium and tritium). It uses an atomic bomb to produce the intense heat needed to fuse hydrogen. A dirty bomb is a chemical bomb that contains some radioactive material. The term, nuclear bomb, refers to either an atomic bomb or a thermonuclear bomb The explosion scatters the radioactive material over a wide area causing radiation sickness.

Answer 4

usually bombs working on nuclear reaction as nuclear bombs .
when it explodes it produces more heat .
that 's y it is called thermonuclear bomb.

Answer 5

The first ones can destroy the world 6 times and the second ones can destroy the world 8 times, but no-one knows for sure because there is no-one around to confirm it.

Answer 6

a lot more power and controlled

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reaction