North Korea claims to have tested a hydrogen bomb, a weapon more powerful than the atomic bombs that devastated the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II. Here’s how they differ.
Source: Hydrogen Bomb vs. Atomic Bomb: What’s the Difference?
January 06, 2016
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 A mushroom cloud from the world’s first successful hydrogen bomb test, on Nov. 1, 1952.Credit: Public Domain |
North Korea claims to have tested a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday (Jan. 6), a weapon more powerful than the bombs that devastated the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II.
Experts aren’t yet sure whether the notoriously reclusive country has really built and deployed an H-bomb. For one thing, the seismic disturbance caused by the explosion was a magnitude 5.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. That’s similar in strength to the rumblings from a 2013 North Korea test of an atomic bomb. (Atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs are different types of nuclear bombs.)
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