What is the difference between a nuclear ,atom, hydrogen bomb? Is it all the same ,just a different name ?

Answer 1

A nuclear weapon can be either an atom bomb or a hydrogen bomb. An atom bomb uses a radioactive material like Uranium and conventional explosives. The explosives are set up to compress the Uranium into a tiny space which causes a reaction that leads to fission (splitting) of the uranium atoms releasing a LOT of energy.
In a Hydrogen bomb, basically you are using an atom bomb to compress hydrogen. The Hydrogen undergoes fusion (like what happens in the sun) and releases many many times more energy than the fission that takes place in the atom bomb.
Note that you could technically call a "dirty bomb" a nuclear weapon but neither fission or fusion occurrs. What happens with these is someone takes nuclear material and uses an explosive to spread it out over a large area. The nuclear material won't kill people right away, but eventually the radiactivity will cause health problems (cancer). Messy and expensive to clean up, hence the name.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

A hydrogen bomb work on the principle of fusion. Two hydrogen atoms are fused together and become helium. The release of energy in this reaction is tremendous. The principle in a nuclear bomb is fission. An atom like plutonium is split. Splitting an atom also releases a tremendous amount of energy.

Answer 3

sorta all can be used for the hydrogen bomb ( but only it has the hydrogen bomb title since it splits a different atom - in fact it takes an atomic bomb just to trigger it ) the terms atom - atomic - nuclear are interchangeable

look at it this way
atomic or atom - the original bomb
hydrogen - splits the hydrogen atom - stronger
neutron - small blast lots of radiation
fusion - all of the above
nuclear - all of the above

Answer 4

Pretty much. An atom bomb is, or nuclear bomb, uses a chain reaction to explode. Hydrogen is a fuel, or something which is used as part of the process, since it is so small.