Fusion bombs are very real. The explosion is many time more powerful than a fission bomb and there is no radioactive fallout from a fusion reaction. However, to create a fusion reaction you need the immense power of a fission explosion. So a fusion bomb actually employs two different types of reaction, and radioactive fallout still exists as a result of the fission.

Who told you we can't fuse hydrogen atoms?

*EDIT: I'm no scientist okay people, so don't take my words for certain. This is just something I remember my science teacher talking about in middle school.

[Edited on 4-12-2004 by insite]

Originally posted by insite
Fusion bombs are very real. The explosion is many time more powerful than a fission bomb and there is no radioactive fallout from a fusion reaction. However, to create a fusion reaction you need the immense power of a fission explosion. So a fusion bomb actually employs two different types of reaction, and radioactive fallout still exists as a result of the fission.

Who told you we can't fuse hydrogen atoms?

*EDIT: I'm no scientist okay people, so don't take my words for certain. This is just something I remember my science teacher talking about in middle school.

[Edited on 4-12-2004 by insite]

Insite did you not use this once before??

Did you copy and paste it from one of your previous posts? Because I seem to have a strong feeling this same exact paragraph has been used before, strange huh?

Shattered OUT...

insite beat me to it. nice work. fusion bombs have been around since the early 1950s. i believe it was one of the operation ivy or mike tests that was the first one. also, as insite said, you need the energy of a fission bomb to create the fusion.