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The hydrogen bomb functions by the fusion, or joining together, of the lighter elements into heavier elements.
The end product again weighs less than its components.
Extremely high temperatures are required in order to initiate fusion reactions.
The hydrogen bomb is also known as a thermonuclear bomb.
The first thermonuclear bomb was exploded in 1952 at Enewetak by the United States, the second in 1953 by Russia (then the USSR). Great Britain, France, and China have also exploded thermonuclear bombs.
Structure of the bomb. Easy, but super dangerous.
Process of it.
Like other types of nuclear explosion, the explosion of a hydrogen bomb creates an extremely hot zone near its center.
In this zone, because of the high temperature, nearly all of the matter present is vaporized to form a gas at extremely high pressure.
A sudden overpressure, i.e., a pressure far in excess of atmospheric pressure, propagates away from the center of the explosion as a shock wave, decreasing in strength as it travels.
It is this wave, containing most of the energy released, that is responsible for the major part of the destructive mechanical effects of a nuclear explosion.
The details of shock wave propagation and its effects vary depending on whether the burst is in the air, underwater, or underground.
