A-Bombs and H-bombs?

Question

why is it that when you say A-bomb or H-bomb people tend to think of those impressive big bright balls of fire, or those big mushroom clouds. similar to these:
http://clintjcl.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/delme-h-bomb.jpg
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr121/im/castle-romeo2-ex.jpg

but they never think of pictures like these?
http://students.umf.maine.edu/~donoghtp/hiroshima2.gif
http://pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/imagesMac-PC/ForPEACE/HiroshimaHosp.jpg
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/572/nagasaki2if7.jpg

viewers of a sensitive disposition might not want to click the last 3 links.

im not a college freshman ^^

Answer 1

It could be because of the difference between "an atomic explosion" and "the aftermath of an atomic explosion".
It depends on the context.
Clearly, some people do think of the aftermath when you mention "the bomb".

I believe that the threat of mutual annihilation kept NATO(read "the west" or "the US") out of war with the Warsaw Pact (Soviet Union) for decades.

Answer 2

A nuclear warhead purely ability a warhead (something you could stick on a missile that's risky on your combatants) this is nuclear (powered by ability of nuclear reactions). what style of reaction isn't focused. The earliest nuclear bombs used fission. Uranium or plutonium atoms are chop up aside in a series reaction. The bomb that replaced into dropped on Nagasaki labored by ability of firing one piece of fantastically enriched plutonium into yet another piece at great velocity; that's the oldest and easiest form of nuclear weapon, and the type that terrorists could be maximum probable to be waiting to construct. Then they found a thank you to apply fusion. the finest thank you to try this's to place 2 atomic bombs on the two end of a cylinder crammed with pressurized deuterium and tritium (those are 2 isotopes of hydrogen that fuse very truthfully). whilst the bombs bypass off the hydrogen isotopes are heated and compressed until they start to fuse, only like they do on the sunlight. BOOOM! Bombs more desirable with hydrogen isotopes tend to be lots greater helpful. particularly of destroying one small city, you ought to truthfully harm an entire metropolitan area. think of burning down manhattan and maximum of it is suburbs with one bomb. the biggest bomb ever equipped replaced into temporarily (for 39 nanoseconds) a million.4% of the brightness of the whole sunlight. the only good concern approximately hydrogen bombs is the fireball is a lot larger than the area radiation can commute via air. there is likewise particularly little fallout. in case you ever see one you will probable be completely blinded and your epidermis will look such as you have been braised with a blowtorch even at one hundred km away, yet a minimum of you do no longer would desire to concern approximately radiation almost as lots because of fact the survivors of Hiroshima did.

Answer 3

It quite simple really, it's because pictures like the last three were able to be taken that your grand father or his father was able to come home from the pacific war alive! The alternative was an invasion of Japan and that would have cost an additional 500,000 american lives! In war, It's the winner that gets to go home and raise their family! So the only way you can ask that question is because we won!

Answer 4

Thanks for the warning. I'm not clicking on them. However, I can't help you with your question because you didn't say what the pictures were.

Answer 5

Who doesn't, they are both true and most people know that.

Answer 6

You college freshmen think you are SO deep...

Answer 7

C-Bomb (lol, cherry bomb)