Hydrogen bombs are devastating

- The atomic bombs were dropped in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are nothing compared to the damage that can cause a hydrogen bomb. That says nuclear expert Sico van der Meer of the Clingendael Institute. North Korea claimed Wednesday to have tested the bomb. If that's true, it's in the eyes of the regime is a huge step forward.

In a 'normal' atomic nuclei are split (fission) or together (fusion). An enormous amount of energy is released, which results in a violent explosion. A hydrogen bomb goes one step further. The first explosion produces a second explosion, which is much heavier.,, A bomb has a devastating effect, really unprecedented, '' said Van der Meer.

An average hydrogen bomb is about five hundred times stronger than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Van der Meer: Some may even thousand times stronger. It is hard to estimate what a hydrogen bomb would have done in Japan, because we fortunately have never seen fall on a city.
The advantage of hydrogen is that it releases relatively little radiation, compared with an ordinary atomic bomb as he wreaks more havoc. Soldiers can quickly after the explosion invade the area to conquer it.

The heaviest explosion of a hydrogen bomb ever happened on October 30, 1961. The Soviet Union tested when his tsarenbom 'on Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic.,, The diamonds fell 900 kilometers away. Imagine, a bomb in France or Germany, the windows let stand here. The bomb was ten times stronger than all the ordinary explosives in World War II together. ''

The Americans got first detonate a hydrogen bomb, on March 1, 1954 at the Bikini atoll in the Pacific. The bomb hit a 1.5-kilometer-wide crater and the fireball came within a minute 13 kilometers high. A Japanese fishing vessel 160 kilometers away was buried under a gray snow. When a few weeks later reached home, all fishermen had heavy radioactive burns and was a crew member had died. Children on another island were playing innocently with the powder. When the islanders were evacuated a day later, were the first people's hair all off. The force of the bomb,, was much larger than expected, '' concluded the US military said dryly.