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During his Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar, Rahul Gandhi compared his political attack to a “hydrogen bomb” on the BJP.

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00:00What exactly is a hydrogen bomb?
00:14The atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Japan in 1945
00:18remained the only nuclear weapons ever used in warfare.
00:22But just seven years later, an even more destructive nuclear bomb was built,
00:26the hydrogen bomb.
00:27It was hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb.
00:31Atomic bombs work on nuclear fission,
00:33the splitting of heavy atoms like uranium or plutonium.
00:35When these atoms split, they release an enormous amount of energy.
00:39Whereas hydrogen bombs use a two-step process.
00:42First, an atomic reaction sets off the explosion,
00:44then comes nuclear fusion,
00:46the same process that powers the sun,
00:48where hydrogen atoms fuse together, releasing unimaginable energy.
00:52The result, a single hydrogen bomb can wipe out an entire city,
00:56even a small country, depending on its size.
00:59The largest ever tested, the Soviet Union's SAR bomba in 1961,
01:03was so powerful, its shockwaves circled the earth three times.
01:06So while the atomic bomb is devastating,
01:09the hydrogen bomb takes destruction to an entirely different scale.
01:12And today, both the US and Russia have thousands of them.
01:15India, China and a few others are believed to have hydrogen bombs' capability too.
01:19So when politicians casually compare their attacks to hydrogen bombs,
01:23Atom bombs are a big hydrogen bomb.
01:25Remember, these weapons are not just bigger versions of atomic bombs,
01:29they are the deadliest devices ever built by humans.
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