Ivana Hughes

So we have different elements on the planet.

The atoms are sort of the smallest units of the element, but those atoms are made up of different kinds of particles.

So the nucleus is at the center of the atom,

It might have just a single proton like in hydrogen, or it might also have more protons and also neutrons and so on.

And then there are electrons around it.

In chemical reactions, everything basically happens with, not basically, everything happens with the electrons.

So the nuclei just stay the same.

With nuclear reactions, everything is about what happens in the nucleus.

The nucleus either splits or the nuclei infusion or nuclei come together infusion.

In fusion, if you have a nucleus that is positively charged, electrons are negatively charged.

This is what keeps the atom stable.

If you have one nucleus that's positively charged trying to come together with another nucleus that's positively charged, they repel each other, right?

So we now, you know.

So they repel each other.

So you actually need to...

invest energy to overcome that electrostatic repulsion.

And the amount of energy that's needed can only be supplied by something like a fission bomb.

So even for fusion, for hydrogen weapons, right, we actually need to have fission as the fuel that kind of sets up the conditions for the fusion to actually take place.

So the Bravo one was a thousand times more powerful than a Hiroshima bomb.

The currently, like if we have a one megaton bomb, that's about 70 Hiroshima bombs per