Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Hydrogen Bomb’ Remark Explained | Atomic vs Hydrogen Bomb Difference - video Dailymotion

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.