Wikijunior talk:How Things Work/Nuclear Bomb

Nuclear bombs. How they work.
On this page, you say you are describing: How a NUCLEAR BOMB works. However, you are describing an ATOMIC BOMB! There are a lot of major differences between the two types of bombs! THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING!!!!!!! There are NOT two types of Nuclear weapons! There is only ONE!!! That is a bomb which uses FUSION. Bombs that use FISSION are called ATOMIC BOMBS! Not nuclear! Nuclear bombs have never ever been used in a war! The bombs dropped on Japan were Atomic bombs! When those bombs were used, NUCLEAR WEAPONS had not even been invented yet!!!! Nuclear bombs use fusion-- NOT fission! They are also over 100 times more powerful than Atomic bombs! Atomic bombs use fission. In an Atomic bomb, they used Uranium 235 in the first one and Plutonium in the second one. Atomic bombs are also called "Dirty Bombs", because, they create more fallout, radiation and similar after affects than nukes. Nuclear bombs don't split atams, they fuse two atoms together. It takes a lot more energy and force to do this than it does to split the atoms. That creates a larger explosion. Nukes also use different materials to create the explosion. Usually, they use: "Tritium and Derillium". They smash these two elements together and fuse the atoms together (NOT split the atoms!), creating a much more powerful, Nuclear explosion! What I'm saying here is that thd two types of bombs, Atomic and Nuclear, are NOT the same thing at all! They are very different from each other! Please fix this on this page and update it. Astronomer69 (discuss • contribs) 21:49, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Feel free to fix it yourself, taking account that the intended audience is eight year old children. Thanks - QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 11:36, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
 * You are confusing thermonuclear bombs with nuclear bombs with atomic bombs! Thermonuclear bombs use fusion and have never been used in anything. (Might blow up the whole Earth!) Nuclear bombs are the same as atomic bombs and can use fusion or fission and have been used. Very confusing indeed. --Red-back spider (discuss • contribs) 10:54, 14 August 2020 (UTC)