what is an atomic bomb really made of?
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm
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Atomic bombs use fission reaction (splitting atoms) from the nuclear material.  Hydrogen bombs are Fusion bombs where the hydrogen atoms are Fused together generating much more energy than fission.  Hydrogen bombs have to use an atomic bomb to generate the Fusion reaction in the Hydrogen.\n\nYour not Osama are you??
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How can you have something if nothings there? Atoms are made up or protons, neutrons, and quarks which are the basic building blocks of matter. Well at least until someone discovers there made up of something else lol!
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Hm.  Okay.  Here's some stuff about atoms to get you started:\n\nJust like all things are made of atoms, all atoms for the most part are made up of the same three parts.  Protons, neutrons, and electrons.\n\nProtons and neutrons are comparatively really heavy.  Pretty much all the weight of an atom comes from these guys.  Because they're heavy, they don't move around a lot unless the whole atom is moving.  Instead they stick together in the center of the atom (also called the nucleus).\n\nElectrons live very different lives.  Unlike protons and neutrons, they are not only light but comparatively large.  They buzz around the nucleus like planets around a star... or perhaps more like beach balls around a sack of marbles.  A lot of chemistry has to do with electrons zipping around, being attracted to one thing or another... or more likely to several things at once.\n\nAnother important thing to know about the parts of atoms is their charge.  The charge in these parts come from the electric force, which (if you can imagine it) is a billion billion billion billion billion billion times stronger than gravity (yes, that's a one followed by 36 zeroes).  The electric force is also involved with electricity that we use in our houses and the like.\n\nThe pro- in proton comes from its positive charge.  To make things easy for themselves scientists just decided to say a proton has a +1 charge.  The neu- in neutron comes from it being neutral.  It has zero charge.  Electrons have the opposite charge of protons, so they have a -1 charge.  Pretty straightforward.\n\nAnd here's where things get interesting.  The name we give an atom (like helium or uranium or whatever) depends ONLY on the number of protons it has.  So, for example, an atom with two protons is helium, no matter WHAT else its got.  Neutrons hang out in the nucleus with protons, where they add to the weight of an atom but don't do much else.  And the REASON all those electrons are buzzing around a boring nucleus instead of being off somewhere else is because all those negative charges like to be near all those positive charges.  And since the electric force is so incredibly strong, you can bet that just about everything you run into is going to have as close to a zero total charge as it can get.\n\nSo there you have it.  Atoms in a nutshell.  Hope that helps!
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Kids bits in brackets :)\n\nAn atom bomb works by firing a proton/neutron (a little part of an atom) at a mass of uranium (nuclear material) the proton goes into the uranium and eventually hits and joins with an atom of uranium, that atom is now unstable (a bit like too many people on a ladder) so to make it self stable it loses some protons (some people fall off the ladder), usually 2 or 3 (that's the bit they call fission), these fire off and hit other atoms repeating the process in a chain. if the amount of uranium is small then a lot of the protons fly out of the uranium and do nothing, however if there is enough uranium the protons are contained in the mass and break up even more atoms, leading to a catastrophic chain reaction (KaaaaBOOOOOOM)!!! \n\n***Try shouting the last part it should get a few laughs :)\n\nPS. because the uranium lost more protons than was originally put into it as extra, it is no longer standard uranium, this is called a uranium isotope.\n\nbrubeck_take5 yeah I remember the ping-pong ball video... really cool, wouldn't mind seeing that again... gonna see if I can find it... let you know :)\n\nhere goes... thing the slow motion one is the best\n\nhttp://www.ap.stmarys.ca/demos/content/modern/mousetrap_reactor/trap_sideview_slow_high.wmv\n\nbut if you want to look at them all\n\nhttp://www.ap.stmarys.ca/demos/content/modern/mousetrap_reactor/mousetrap_reactor.html
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Elements are made up of atoms.\nAtoms are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons.\nProtons, Neutrons and electrons are made up of 6 different types of quarks: up, down, strange, bottom, top, and charm.\n\ncheck out this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark
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Inside an atoms are electrons and a nucleus. The nucleus is made of protons and neutrons. The protons and neutrons are made out of things called quarks. As far as we know, quarks and electrons are fundamental, meaning they are not made out of anything smaller. There are several types of quark and under certain circumstances, they can convert from one type into another.
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The atomic bomb, such as those developed in the Manhattan Project during WWII, was just a first type of nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapons developed in the years during the Cold War, after WWII, were designed to be even more destructive.\n\nWhile atomic bombs are considered nuclear weapons, in general, the average destructiveness (usually measured in kilotons) of one of those early atomic bombs is much less than the average destructiveness of the more advanced nuclear bombs that followed.\n\nIn the past few years, there has been research into making nuclear weapons that have very low levels of destruction - for use in battlefields rather than for destroying whole cities.
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Atomic Bomb is actually a type of Nuclear Weapon.\n\nThere are two basic types of nuclear weapons. The first are weapons which produce their explosive energy through nuclear fission reactions alone. These are known colloquially as atomic bombs, A-bombs, or fission bombs. In fission weapons, a mass of fissile material (enriched uranium or plutonium) is assembled into a supercritical mass—the amount of material needed to start an exponentially growing nuclear chain reaction—either by shooting one piece of subcritical material into another, or by compressing a subcritical mass with chemical explosives, at which point neutrons are injected and the reaction begins. A major challenge in all nuclear weapon designs is ensuring that a significant fraction of the fuel is consumed before the weapon destroys itself. The amount of energy released by fission bombs can range between the equivalent of less than a ton of TNT upwards to around 500,000 tons (500 kilotons) of TNT.\n\nThe second basic type of nuclear weapon produces a large amount of its energy through nuclear fusion reactions, and can be over a thousand times more powerful than fission bombs. These are known as hydrogen bombs, H-bombs, thermonuclear bombs, or fusion bombs. Only six countries— United States, Russia, United Kingdom, People's Republic of China, France, and possibly India—are known to possess hydrogen bombs. 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.\n\nThere 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.
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The A-bomb generates its massive amount of energy using fission.  When intense pressure is applied to the radioactive material, the nuclei of the atoms within split apart, releasing tremendous amounts of energy.\n\nThe H-bomb generates its energy through fusion.  An A-bomb is required to start the process.  When the A-bomb goes off, tremendous pressure is applied to a hydrogen core, which causes the hydrogen atoms to fuse into helium atoms.  The reaction results in a reduction of mass.  The 'lost' mass is converted into energy, which results in a huge explosion.  The H-bomb is considerably more powerful than an A-bomb.\n\nThe theoretical next step would be a carbon-bomb, which would require an H-bomb to induce fusion in a carbon core.  These bombs could be powerful enough to blow a hole through the crust, revealing the mantle beneath.
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Everything is made of atoms, genius...\n\nC. nothing would be left.
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Fusion mixed with a dirty bomb. So, a hydrogen bomb that liberates lots and lots of radiation. Anything small would be bad also, only because it would be harder to detect, and counter.
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nuclear bombs is the general term for any bomb that involves a nuclear reaction, but often is meant to denote a fission bomb that uses uranium or plutonium, like the ones dropped on japan. a hydrogen bomb uses nuclear fusion, which is more powerful, but requires a fission reaction to start it, so a hydrogen bomb contains a fission bomb and hydrogen to undergo fusion\nhydrogen bombs are definitely not more environmentally correct; they cause much more destruction and as much if not more radiatioactivity. this is especially true if they have a uranium "jacket" that creates a second fission explosion after the first fission and fusion.
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Helium bomb? Do you mean hydrogen bomb?\n\nAnyway, an atomic bomb uses uranium or plutonium, heavy elements, and bombards them with a force, which splits the heavy nuclei into smaller nuclei, with a huge rush of energy. This is called nuclear fission.\n\nHydrogen bombs are kind of the opposite. They perform nuclear fusion, which is much harder to do. Hydrogen bombs use atomic bombs to provide the force. In the center is a pellet of deuterium, a hydrogen isotope with a neutron. The deuterium fuses together to form helium, creating a much, much, much bigger explosion than fission.\n\nOne modern hydrogen bomb can instantly vaporize all the water in the San Francisco Bay.
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It is lyophillic sol.\nHydrogen bomb is based on fusion. but to start the fusion the temp required is in millions. So to acquire that temp the fusion is triggered by atom bomb(fission)
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In 1942 the Manhattan Engineer Project was set up in the United States under the command of Brigadier General Leslie Groves. Scientists recruited to produce an atom bomb included Robert Oppenheimer (USA), David Bohm (USA), Leo Szilard (Hungary), Eugene Wigner (Hungary), Rudolf Peierls (Germany), Otto Frisch (Germany), Niels Bohr (Denmark), Felix Bloch (Switzerland), James Franck (Germany), James Chadwick (Britain), Emilio Segre (Italy), Enrico Fermi (Italy), Klaus Fuchs (Germany) and Edward Teller (Hungary). \n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmanhattan.htm\n\nThe Manhattan Project took over control of U.S. fission research, which had begun in 1939, starting in the fall of 1942, and resulted in the design, production, and detonation of three nuclear bombs in 1945. The first, using plutonium made at the Hanford, Washington, plant, was tested on July 16 as "Trinity", the world's first nuclear test, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The second, an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy", was detonated on August 6, over Hiroshima, Japan. The third, another plutonium bomb, code-named "Fat Man", was detonated on August 9, over Nagasaki, Japan.\n\nThe primary sites of the project exist today as Hanford Site, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the National Security Complex and several other plants. The MED maintained control over U.S. weapons production until the formation of the Atomic Energy Commission in January 1947.\n\nAt its peak in 1945, the Project employed over 130,000 people, and cost a total of nearly $2 billion USD.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
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it was 2 atomic bombs that were used to change the attitudes of the japanese government.a hydrogen bomb is much more powerful and back then they had no way of transporting that kind of power.the germans had a scientist who did come up with the idea and he came to america to share his knowledge of the atomic bomb,Albert Einstein.and if atomic were used today in a war,it would be as effective today as it was back then.