Hydrogen bombs work by utilizing the Teller-Ulam design, in which a fission bomb is detonated in a specially manufactured compartment adjacent to a fusion fuel. The gamma and X-rays of the fission explosion compress and heat a capsule of tritium, deuterium, or lithium deuteride starting a fusion reaction. Neutrons emitted by this fusion reaction can induce a final fission stage in a depleted uranium tamper surrounding the fusion fuel, increasing the yield considerably as well as the amount of nuclear fallout. Each of these components is known as a "stage", with the fission bomb as the "primary" and the fusion capsule as the "secondary". By chaining together numerous stages with increasing amounts of fusion fuel, thermonuclear weapons can be made to an almost arbitrary yield; the largest ever detonated (the Tsar Bomba of the USSR) released an energy equivalent to over 50 million tons (megatons) of TNT, though most modern weapons are nowhere near that large.
There are other types of nuclear weapons as well. For example, a boosted fission weapon is a fission bomb which increases its explosive yield through a small amount of fusion reactions, but it is not a hydrogen bomb. Some weapons are designed for special purposes; a neutron bomb is a nuclear weapon that yields a relatively small explosion but a relatively large amount of prompt radiation; these could theoretically be used to cause massive casualties while leaving infrastructure mostly intact. The detonation of a nuclear weapon is accompanied by a blast of neutron radiation. Surrounding a nuclear weapon with suitable materials (such as cobalt or gold) creates a weapon known as a salted bomb. This device can produce exceptionally large quantities of radioactive contamination. Most variety in nuclear weapon design is in different yields of nuclear weapons for different types of purposes, and in manipulating design elements to attempt to make weapons extremely small.
Fissile materials
A fissile material is one that can support a fission chain reaction. Uranium-235 and plutonium-239 are the fissile materials most often used in nuclear bombs, and producing or procuring them is usually the most difficult part of a weapons development program. During the Manhattan Project, for example, around 90% of the total program budget was devoted to the production of U-235 and Pu-239. Modern pits (see below) often combine the two.
Test bombs using uranium-233 have also been detonated by the US, and it may be a component of India's weapons program as well.
Several other isotopes have been considered as potentially usable in fission weapons, though no country has been known to produce them for this purpose. The fact that neptunium-237 "can be used for a nuclear explosive device" was declassified by the U.S. Department of Energy in 1992
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2006-10-21 23:11:22
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answered by Anonymous
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Are you Abdul Kadir Khan from Pakistan?
If you are so, then you have to pay me
for taking you to the site, where there
are at least 300 factories producing
Hydrogen Bombs in Sivakashi, at Tamil nadu.
These bombs are very common in India and
are used during Deepavali.
Amused? Please give me the best answer vote.
2006-10-22 09:50:56
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answered by pianist 5
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You better not make it.
It's dangerous, it's bad and it has no practical use!
But anyway, you can check the links below.
There's nothing complicated - the most difficult stuff to get is lithium deiterium (LiD) and uranium-235 (U-235) and explosives (dynamite or something equivalent). Oh yeah - it's could get really hot during explosion (100 million degrees Celsius). But anyway, it's BAD to make H-bombs!!!
2006-10-22 05:59:34
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answered by Anonymous
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IF you really want to know, there are lots of articles on the subject. Too much info to post here to do you much good. Is this for a paper or something?
2006-10-22 05:56:29
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answered by Dan821 4
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Water balloon-just ignore the oxygen
2006-10-22 05:53:32
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answered by super stud 4
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DO DO DO MAKE IT! CALL ME WHEN U'VE MADE IT
AND THEN WE WILL CELEBRATE DIWALI TOGETHER BY THROWIN IT ON PAKISTAN!!!!!!
2006-10-23 04:14:32
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answered by catty 4
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it's so dangerous b'coz it multiplies it's power from the minute we put the bomb(2-4-8-16-32....................................................)OK!OK!OK! r u a terrorist???????
2006-10-23 03:57:47
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answered by Anonymous
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askin **** like this is goin get yahoo shut down
2006-10-22 05:53:51
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answered by thaheartoflife 2
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why??????????wanna make for this diwali............
2006-10-22 06:35:16
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answered by DoN-- i aM bACk iN ActION....... 3
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