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-Albert Einstein**
 * "//I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the Atomic Bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed//."


 * __Nuclear Bombs__**

Nuclear Bombs that are used today all around the wolrd in warfare are things not many of us have any clue about the mechanics that help to create and use them efficiently.Nuclear bombs involve the forces, strong and weak, that hold the atom of a nucleus together, especially atoms with unstable nuclei. There are two ways that nuclear energy can be realeased from an atom. Them being Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Fusion, out of both types of energy is large amounts of heat, energy and radiation given off. These are the basic fundamentals that help define what a numclear bomb is made up by.


 * __Nuclear Fission__**

Nuclear Fission is the first type of release that nuclear energy is able to produce. This is when you can split the nucleus of an atom into two smaller fragments with a neutron. This method usually involves isotopes of Uranium or Plutonium. The first nuclear bombs that were created were Fission devices. Later Fusion bombs were made with the requirement of a fission-trigger. That is the first kind of energy which can be given off by an atom.

__**Nuclear Fusion**__

Nuclear Fusion is the second form of energy that is given off from an atom. This form is when you are able to bring two smaller atoms, usually Hydrogen or Hydrogen isotopes (Deuterium, Tritium) together to form a larger one(Helium or Helium isotopes). This is the way that our Sun is able to produce energy. Fusion bombs were'nt as easy to use when it came to making Bombs, as compared to Fission because of certain characteristics with the fusion needing fission energy as well to operate correctly.


 * __Fission Bombs__**

Fission Bombs were a type of bomb that used an element like Uranium-235 to create a nuclear explosion. Uranium-235 has an extra property that makes it useful for both nuclear power production and nuclear bomb production. Uranium is one of the few materials that can undergo induced fission. Which basically is if a free neutron runs into a U-235 nucleus, the nucleus will absorb the neutron without hesitation which results in the nucleus becoming unstable and will split immediately.



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