For those of you that may be alarmed that this video contains a lot of details that could get into the wrong hands, all the information discussed in this video is available either online or in books. Nothing classified is being discussed here. The barriers to constructing an actual bomb are not because people don't know the science of how hydrogen bombs work, but because it's very difficult to collect and enrich the type and quantity of fuel needed. In addition, the technology of creating the timers, purifiers, and mechanisms necessary to make the bomb work successfully is not trivial.
This is a fantastic video. I recently read an older paper called "The Effects of Nuclear Attack on the Rio Grande Valley." It covers the compounding fission/fusion processes and the ground damage up to about 30 miles away. Pretty horrifying.
Its especially the political pressure and threat of foreign intervention that prevents countries from making them , the world superpowers will never let other nations developp their own bombs and become a threat to them , i'm surprised India managed to pull it off...
Went down a rabbit hole after watching Oppenheimer and this was the most informative video. No other videos clearly explain the chemical reactions inside the bomb. Keep up the good work!
If you really want to know more about the nuclear bomb showed in Oppenheimer, you should watch other video made by this guy. This one covers more details about hydrogen bomb. Here's the link: ruclips.net/video/NrjW-11Y9sY/видео.html
Probably because this video was made several years ago by someone who was passionate about the subject versus the latest wave of poor quality, all fluff nonsubstance clickbait bomb videos riding the Oppenheimer popularity wave.
For many years now I've seen a lot of Discovery, History & Military channel videos on TV and I'm shocked on how they blatantly disclose the company names & address, and during the interview they show the names & faces of the folks developing these technologies. I'm sitting there feeling shocked & alarmed and thinking "don't these fools realize that Everyone in the world now knows where they can go to steal or sabotage this technology! !" Those people dont seems care about OPERATIONAL SECURITY (OPSEC) or National Security and they seem hellbent on leaking secrets above everything else.
2:55 "The result was a dry solid stable powder, called cocaine. This enabled the scientist to work hours on end without rest in order to create the hydrogen bomb"
Its not insane if you read the history of atomic discoveries, they were not done by one person, it was many, over many decades, one discovery lead to another in a logical sequence, the only thing needed was a government willing to spend the money to actually build it
Stephen Winchester I am with you, just amazing and beyond my comprehension of my little brain that subatomic molecules can do this and the ones who discovered it. And people wonder if there is a higher being that created all of this. Lol
The early versions were quite a different design; significantly harder to get exactly right, and had a lower maximum yield due to the limitations built into that design. So, it's a matter of fiddling with the design bit by bit, changing things here and there, finding out what *doesn't* work, etc., etc., etc., ... *lotsa* work and brain-time! Except that *this* video makes a short-cut for ... whomever!
@@robertthomas5906 it's a shame they don't realize not even primordial soup would be left behind in any environment of a nuclear detonation lol, gods gonna need to work for another seven days to get that shit up and running again...
The most amazing two things aside from the incredible amount of energy stored in the fuel is the fact that the blast impact from the fission bomb cannot reach the hydrogen fuel before the x rays and the mathematics and scientific calculations it took to realize what is needed to contain the energy of the fission bomb for long enough to cause the compression of the fusion cylinder.
Agreed. Also fascinated by timeframe everything happens and precision, technical challenges for compression of fission fuel with chemical implosion. That's some another level engineering
We're human. You're part neanderthal..so don't give us real humans a bad name. Real humans wouldn't even think to create something like this. Only a devil can imagine such destruction.
@@Spyder8561 The first step to change as a person is to accept your flaws. Accept that humans are not divine or superior creatures, we are all but animals doing what animals do best, reproduce and kill each other, being good or evil is not a matter of DNA it is a matter of character.
@@Spyder8561 Nuclear weapons have legitematly done more good than bad. Without them there would've been a ww3 and it would've fucking destroyed Europe, nuclear weapons are the only things that stopped this. Armed conflicts would be overall much more common Around the world, a LOT more human suffering than in our timeline
@@Spyder8561 though I despise the thought of hydrogen bombs being used in a nuclear war they have done more good than bad so far. Nuclear weapons are a double edged sword. Though there's the very very small possibility of total nuclear annihilation they are an incredibly powerful deterrent. The main reason a third world war hasn't happened yet is because of nuclear weapons. Nobody wants to go to war thanks to the nuclear doctrine of mutually assured destruction.
yep, and PL Rod got a memtion too.. but thats ALL it got!!!! i dont blame him for not going into detail though.. im worried to even type out the full name!!,
My cousin, Dr Donald MacRae, worked at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He was a Canadian astrophysicist and worked with a small team of physicists on the purification of Uranium 238 for the Trinity bomb. There were a few Canadians involved throughout the Manhattan Project, he was one of them. Thank you for this on how it all comes together!
I have been studying Physics for 20+ years. And in all this time only two videos have been able to accurately describe these reactions thoroughly, completely simply. Only one part was incorrect. Nicely done.
I found the "FOGBANK". Funny how the old men were able to do it and kill a few, but the kids said "We have to be safe!". They are cleaning up Y12, but there is still a cancer cluster.
Albert Einstein forget about sticks because for sticks we need trees and as you know the admin is nuclear scientist he explain everything will be converted to helium atom and there will be nothing just free election and neutron floating in air with helium atom then how the hell we will get sticks🤔🤔🤔
@@Dannysince1985 _"If ww3 kills everyone"_ - No, it won't. It will just kill 99% of everyone. That will leave eighty million unlucky starving freezing and hunted people hiding from predators and each other. _"when the sun implodes"_ - It won't. It will blow up to be a 'red giant', and then fade as a 'white dwarf'. If humans are still alive somewhere, it won't be in the Solar System.
At least now we have an answer for the first part... all this thermonuclear stuff. Let's hope this quote will never turn to reality (but probably it will).
The fact we human can even split atoms apart blows my mind let alone create temperatures hotter than the center of our sun..I wish I was this interested in fusion /fission back when I was a student as I am as an adult. Great video
Fission and fusion are entirety natural phenomena. All mankind is doing is harnessing nature. That said, I have doubts about the plausibility and existence of fusion weapons.
@@paulanderson79 pure fusion weapons dont exist and they dont have to...like explained triggering fusion with fission works just fine. I really wonder why some ppl do not believe that fusion is something we can achieve in our power plants or that Its even real, like whats up with that?
@@Balnazzardi Fusion is absolutely real. It's an entirely natural phenomenon. However, fusion does NOT occur in commercial power reactors, nor in medical or research reactors. There is no such thing as a man made fusion reactor. All reactors are fission reactors. From a purely scientific perspective I wish to point out that belief form no part of information. It's a dangerous and very easily exploited emotion.
I wondered about the science behind them and what the implosion part actually meant and your diagram really helped, this really opened my eyes to the level of research that went into destruction and I feel uncomfortably moved by it. That was horrible - thank you ☮️
@@Head-Tr1ck Nuclear weapons and the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) are what prevented a major war between the USA and the USSR. The military conflicts between the two sides were carried out entirely by proxy wars. The making of tools and weapons is intrinsic to human nature. Once the principles of fission and fusion were discovered, it was inevitable that they would eventually be developed into weapons. Fission was first discovered in Germany in 1938. The US started working on the Bomb out of fear that Nazi Germany would get one first. Actually, the United States has shown remarkable restraint over the decades of the Cold War. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the US could have easily nuked the USSR while suffering minimal casualties. During the Korean War, there were people who wanted to nuke China. During the Vietnam War, there were people who wanted to nuke North Vietnam. Neither of those things happened.
In an electrical explosion. The conductor material that arcs will expand to 64,000 times their original size. I have seen some hellacious arcs and only the very tips of the corners of the connecting lugs were melted from the arc. It is said that a bolt of lightning is less than the diameter of a human hair.
The x and gamma rays reaching the litium before the initial explosion of the atomic bomb is insane to think about. How were they able to have such an understanding of these atoms and chemicals that they could foresee the process. So interesting
Its easy. xrays and gamma rays travel at the speed of light. So they travel MUCH faster than the shockwave, since the shockwave pobably just travels at not even 1/10.000th of the speed of light.
Experiments. They reach a full understanding of x rays and gamma rays and all the materials involved (individually , of course), and then try to work out how each of them affect the other. For example, you wish to know how a certain material conducts electricity, for that you must understand conductivity at an atomic and molecular level. And then use that understanding as a reference piece of knowledge to conclude how electricity would behave through another material. Hopefully I was able to convey the concept I have.
And despite all that massive liberation of power, hydrogen bombs are still incredibly inefficient. If we ever get to figuring out an anti-matter bomb, it really is game over.
Arvin. HUGE fan of the channel. Truly. Small request- can you turn down the background music slightly? Sometimes it’s too loud and competes with your voice
Thank you for such a well-crafted video. Not only did you lay out, in the most appropriate order, the elements required for the layman's understanding, but you perfectly anticipated the concepts where additional clarification was needed. Superb video!
I'm actually here to correct the incorrect term at 6:12 not in "sequence" but in "sync". If it was exploded in "sequence" meaning one after another then it would fail. The whole idea is to implode the core at the same time in total sync.
"It's the Lybians, they wanted me to build them a bomb. Instead I just gave them a shiny bomb casing filled with used pinball machine parts...RUN FOR IT MARTY!!!" - Doc Brown
It could be worse! Can you imagine the problems that you would have if you live in Kalifornia and they found out that you still have PLASTIC STRAWS and you vote Republican! ?
@@goosesteppa7642 Einstein didn't make the bomb , he just came up with the equation figuring hom much energy was contained in atoms. All atoms are made of energy just some release the energy when manipulated by man.
Yes, we will bomb a civilian population as we did in Japan. Japan attacked a military and naval base in Hawaii. The US destroyed two Japanese civilian cities killing tens of thousands of women and children. Who has the moral high ground here?
Real Enemy OF the whole Universe is America!!! Every fu*kin war they started with some big nonsense state THAT every low IQ brain instantly receive as a "real deal"... America's biggest Enemy is the gouverment OF the same state...
Fascinating video. During the peak of the Cold War, I was a Staff Sargent (E5) stationed at a SAC base in northern Maine. We had nine B-52's on 24 hour alert loaded to the teeth with nukes and fuel. Target: Moscow. I was on a detail responsible for securing the weapons convoy route between the flight line and the nuclear weapons storage area. While standing on the side of the convoy route, I actually got to see real nukes up close and personal as the convoy passed by. The nukes are mounted on special racks that mount in the belly of the B-52. The weapons transfer happens at night. The transport vehicles are brightly illuminated and carrying heavily armed personnel. That was an experience I'll never forget.
@@ijya6413 ... no base there anymore, and loading procedures have changed since then, and he isn't giving details as to exactly what happened at either end of the convoy or even just what they looked like. No worries here.
no need to discover cure for cancer we will die anyway of hydrogen bomb. .a number of earthlings will survive the conflagration become mutants and cancer resistants. .
The cure of cancer is founded long years ago i think ,but for marketing purpuse and hight cost chemical treatment ,they prefer to let people die and make money rather than giving people that real cure
The nuclear explosion shown at the very beginning of the video and captioned, August 6, 1945, was actually the TRINITY test device detonated at Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. At 6:16, Dr.Ash says that the conventional chemical explosives detonate "in sequence." This is not quite right. They actually detonate simultaneously. This is essential so that the sphere of fissile material (either plutonium or uranium) is compressed evenly from all sides, otherwise criticality will not be attained.
@@somedumbozzie1539 wow. Why coz he is brown? Just so u know even if u spend more than many lifetimes studying Yoga u still won't be a Yogi. The excercise part that you call Yoga is just the warm up for u to help u sit for hours and days in intense meditation of different kinds to deeply understand the universe or yourself and things that are higher than this universe.
Very informative. Thank you for actually talking to us like we are adults. I started a few other vids; from other guys, and it was obvious they were trying to make it seem cool to an immature high schooler. You kept it on point, informative and mature. Well done, Sir.
Thanks Mr. Ash; once again, a very concise and tidy delivery. Palatable in the way you intensely simplify the topic but it's necessary. Splendid. You're one of the individuals making youtube worthwhile. 👌🏻
I like how he didn’t have to get political about nuclear weapons and was still able to make a quality, entertaining, and educational video. Round of applause to you sir.
He left out Israel and Pakistan in the nuclear countries list and thus made it political. I'm sure he is smart enough to know but ignored them on purpose. Not sure why though.
I think it's fascinating, though. Not the part of murder and death, but the science behind all of it. The fission and fusion show us e=mc² working, that's just beyond thinking to me, nuclear forces are amazing.
@@bakon3226 And a lot further too. No hiding behind a tree with these bad boys. The trees become collateral damage. And we are still slinging thing's at eachother. As u said though. Throwing more devastating things. And further.
Except that without the 'technical bloviating' too many people are now thinking that almost *anyone* who wants to can put together an H-bomb and fry a whole city! I can hear it now ... thousands of people telling others 'this video online tells you *exactly* how to build an H-bomb!' Oy! 🙄
Coming from a couple of bad videos I was expecting less. I was surprised this one was real information and well presented. It also was efficient and entertaining. Thanks
Awesome to know it’s gonna be a lot more calming when one of these vaporizes my family apart me included ! And it’s all due to the simplicity of the most underrated saying of my lifetime ......... E= mc 2 or aka toast from coast to coast !
Greg Gregory Iran shout down a US drone and he wasn’t even willing to retaliate by killing 150 people. Also, he’s taking the necessary baby steps to disarming NK. What logic has led you to believe he would want to kill hundreds of millions?
Absolutely fascinating. I watched this over and over to absorb it, i even took notes to help my retention. Thank you, sir, very impressive explanation.
I love this guy's confidence and information but i especially love his hairstyle. This was an awesome quick explanation of a complicated scientific process to introduce non scientists (like me, a graphic a graphic designer) to an interesting yet terrifying subject. Subscribed immediately.
Cool. I will note that most fusion bombs deployed today are not in the MT range, but 100's of KT range. Also, you didn't mention boosted weapons, which I believe is just a way to make the primary in the fusion bomb smaller. Great stuff!
A 200 kt nuke weighs 200 lbs. Boosting the fission (first part of the) bomb does reduce the amount of fissile material (extremely expensive), but most of the energy comes from the second stage of the device (the lithium deuteride fusion stage).
Boosting does greatly reduce the size/mass need for the primary because boosting greatly increasing the neutron economy. Boosting also makes the weapon resistant to pre-detonation. Most deployed nuclear weapons still generate a lot of energy from fission in the secondary. You can make weapons that get a higher proportion of their energy (therefore, less fallout) from fusion, but they are going to be bulker and heavier, which is not what you want for a weapon. And although fallout is bad, it is not nearly as bad as killing 100,000s of people with one weapon.
It blows my mind that more people dont know who you are. Then again I'm grateful you aren't too "hollywood" yet and you actually care about knowledge and sharing it with people you dont know. ....I for one appreciate so so much what you do. I wish I could meet you and hang out just to hear some of the amazing things that bounce around that awesome psyche of yours !
@@ArvinAsh well that just made MY day !!!...I hope you know it isnt just me sir ...I think as a society we are slowly but surely losing the inherant urge to question and explore. So because you are doing what you do it pretty much makes you a walking wonder...like a mobile UNESCO site or something. Lol...Idk..but THANK YOU SO MUCH and keep on going....some of us are paying astute attention !!!
That’s… ridiculously amazing… now I can explain this same thing to my school in tomorrow’s physics lecture. My teacher assigned me job to carry out nuclear physics while I like astrophysics ;( but thanks to you I’ll explain all bombs and how they work with relation of E=MC^2.. I knew about atomic,nuclear and thermonuclear bombs but now I know about hydrogen bombs too.. my stupid self till the point thought that hydrogen bombs are nothing but plasma reactors which when exploded, releases a huge amount of energy due to tritium isotope.. I didn’t know how plasma come in it, but now I know it’s complex system of tritium,deuterium,nuclear fission,nuclear fusion,uranium 235/plutonium 241, berrylium, foam and lastly E=MC^2 but the main thing is, it takes 600 billionth of a second is just.. hats off
@@buckhorncortez p = momentum in kilogram-meter per second (kg·m/s) c = speed of light through the aether or vacuum = 299,792,458 meters per second (m/s) m = mass in kilogram (kg)
Good video but I think that you should have gone into more detail about the foam and it’s purpose. It isn’t styrofoam, for one. If it was, then the US government wouldn’t have had a program to reengineer the foam since they forgot how it was originally made (see FOGBANK). You accurately explained about its partial purpose but the other purpose of the foam is to minutely slow the travel of radiation coming from the fission bomb. The presence of the foam instead of air gives the fusion bomb enough time to reach critical rather than air. With air, the the fusion bomb wouldn’t work properly. I think that you should have used the lingo “reflector” instead of mirror, too. But other than that, great video. It’s probably one of the best on YT.
@@ArvinAsh How much time did we spend just figuring out how to actually machine Plutonium? What are the specific assay, purity, and alloy numbers? What does the finished pit even LOOK like? Think you are probably OK...
This video explained the 1955 technology very well. The real modern nuke warheads are even much smaller because the bulky TNT + Plutonium fission initiator is replaced by a Coke bottle size initiator. So that multi-warhead missiles are the preferred weapon. 😉😎
well that and they have lower yields. also, more efficient compression of fusionable fuel probably allows one to ditch the central ignition plug while fusion tampers made from U235 are more energetic than U238.
@@martinofgliwice1486 Tritium and Deuterium play very critical roles to initiate and enhance the fusion and fission chain reactions under tens of million degree temperatures and million psi pressure environments. In a very small volume container. 🤔🤗🙃
This channel deserves a lot more subscribers. Keep up the great work sir, sooner or later the many more other knowledge seekers will come to know of this channel as well.
In all my years or reading (I have adhd) and trying to watch stuff about nukes from creation, to use to now you've explained this the best so far. I've subbed.
Wow, such an absolutely incredible video! You did an amazing job explaining how everything works! Thanks for taking the time and putting this together. 👍🏻
A similar process involving lasers was used in the successful fusion experiment at Lawrence Livermore last week. The capsule (hohlraum) containing the fusion pellet that was used in the experiment is basically a mini hydrogen bomb. The lasers take the place of the atomic primary in order to generate the x-rays to implode the fusion fuel.
Basic and understandable presentation, without fuzzy scientific expressions. Maybe you could mention designer of this kind of weapon but overall great video. Could you explain EMP and how it works? Subscribed👌
6:15 you've left off the end cap for the fusion secondary, which shields the end of the secondary from the X-ray and neutron flux from the primary... the way you're showing it, the secondary will most likely get disrupted before it can properly compress, resulting in a 'fizzle' as the secondary fails to ignite. Also, most missile warheads these days have the explosives in the primary shaped more like a rugby ball, with a spherical secondary. The spherical secondary gives greater compression to the fusion fuel, burning it more completely. And if yield-to-weight is important, as it usually is in a missile warhead, the pusher layer is made up of highly-enriched uranium. 7:09The plasma from the styrofoam filler has very little effect on the secondary, what really causes the compression is the outer layers of the secondary's pusher layer vaporizing in the intense x-ray flux - for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction, so the vaporizing outer pusher layer causes the rest to violently accelerate inward, massively compressing the fusion fuel and fission "spark plug". About all the styrofoam plasma does is keep the radiation channel clear of the vaporized heavy-element pusher layer for a few extra nanoseconds, enhancing the energy transfer from the primary to the secondary.
@@dreggory82 This information is already widely available, the basic principles have been publicly known for several decades now... even if you had detailed plans (which this clearly is not) you still have to get several kilos of fissile material for the primary. That requires substantial infrastructure to produce, something only nation-states are really capable of doing.
I think I read before about the reaction process called "explosion-implosion". I also found that for a much higher yield, additional processes are needed, like "explosion-implosion-explosion" to ensure most fissile/fusion material goes critical. Most warheads are only in the 150 - 450 Kt range though, but there are still quite a few that go into the Mt's.
@@dreggory82 Ya these weapons need to be incredibly precise to work, meaning very, _very_ intricate machining. If one of the many parts of the weapon fail, the whole weapon fails. The engineering has to be very precise, most (if not all) terror groups will not be able to make a thermonuclear weapon anytime in the foreseeable future.
No one knows for sure about the precise details. The information is top secret, these are generalizations useful for the public. You can't go out and make a hydrogen bomb from this information.
For those of you that may be alarmed that this video contains a lot of details that could get into the wrong hands, all the information discussed in this video is available either online or in books. Nothing classified is being discussed here. The barriers to constructing an actual bomb are not because people don't know the science of how hydrogen bombs work, but because it's very difficult to collect and enrich the type and quantity of fuel needed. In addition, the technology of creating the timers, purifiers, and mechanisms necessary to make the bomb work successfully is not trivial.
This is a fantastic video. I recently read an older paper called "The Effects of Nuclear Attack on the Rio Grande Valley." It covers the compounding fission/fusion processes and the ground damage up to about 30 miles away. Pretty horrifying.
Its especially the political pressure and threat of foreign intervention that prevents countries from making them , the world superpowers will never let other nations developp their own bombs and become a threat to them , i'm surprised India managed to pull it off...
@@KennyT187 Okaaaaaay. Time to delete your comment, now.
@@Broodplankje204 "The greatest secret of the H-bomb is that there _is_ no secret..."
- Howard Morland
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Went down a rabbit hole after watching Oppenheimer and this was the most informative video. No other videos clearly explain the chemical reactions inside the bomb. Keep up the good work!
If you really want to know more about the nuclear bomb showed in Oppenheimer, you should watch other video made by this guy. This one covers more details about hydrogen bomb.
Here's the link: ruclips.net/video/NrjW-11Y9sY/видео.html
Probably because this video was made several years ago by someone who was passionate about the subject versus the latest wave of poor quality, all fluff nonsubstance clickbait bomb videos riding the Oppenheimer popularity wave.
Same I probably spent hours learning physics as well as looking through Einstein theories
A nuclear reaction is not chemical.
@@righe8701 Doesn't change the fact that fission or fussion are not chemical reactions.
USA: "Iran, how on earth did you get hydrogen bombs so fast?!"
Iran: "Easy, we found a RUclips tutorial."
This is best joke on the internet. Ahahahaha, I am dying.
For many years now I've seen a lot of Discovery, History & Military channel videos on TV and I'm shocked on how they blatantly disclose the company names & address, and during the interview they show the names & faces of the folks developing these technologies.
I'm sitting there feeling shocked & alarmed and thinking "don't these fools realize that Everyone in the world now knows where they can go to steal or sabotage this technology! !"
Those people dont seems care about OPERATIONAL SECURITY (OPSEC) or National Security and they seem hellbent on leaking secrets above everything else.
You act as if it's easy to make a nuke.
@@oculosprudentium8486 exactly. I am also worried that they simply broadcast information like this.... where will this world end?
Hahahahahahahah i can't stop laughing
2:55 "The result was a dry solid stable powder, called cocaine. This enabled the scientist to work hours on end without rest in order to create the hydrogen bomb"
why isn't this top comment
Good one.
, i wonder what kind of bomb would result by using cannabis...a stoned bomb ?
Eloi Mumford a food bomb to eat😂
BWAAHAHAHA! That's it. Done. Signing out of the interent for the rest of the day.
here after Oppenheimer, pretty insane the ideas these scientists were able to put into practice
Same
Its not insane if you read the history of atomic discoveries, they were not done by one person, it was many, over many decades, one discovery lead to another in a logical sequence, the only thing needed was a government willing to spend the money to actually build it
Lol same
Same and hell yeah it's freaking crazy
I never would have thought that Hydrogen bombs literally had styrofoam in them.
Iran: Styrofoam.....my god, that's it!
Who will win:
A. Modern city
B. some styrofoam
@no u dude is INSANE! People worry about guns and he's building 200W lasers lol.
So, they made styrofoam bomb then.
@@Danuxsy Some metal in one foamy boi.
trust me fbi agent, its for a school project
FBI agent: "oh ok i und, wait a minute!! what do you need an Hbomb for??"
This is a job for the CIA
@@fbi1819 😂😂😂
FBI I see you way too often... are you following me?
No, I’m following you!!
@@Solisium-Channel Maybe Because Im the *FBI*
you're a really good teacher. this is the 1st time i have been able to grasp an idea of how this actually works. thank you so much for sharing this!🙂
Holly trinity, even a dumbass like me understood everything in this video! That means creators did a phenomenal job.
@Timothy McCaskey
Shave and a haircut, 2 bits🤣🤣🤣
Holy
exlibrisas same lol
exlibrisas fun fact: the (not holy) trinity test was the first nuclear detonation
@@ndo144 Well I know that. It started nuclear era.
How the hell did they figure this out?! The science behind this is fascinating, terrifying and mind boggling
"Cocaine is a hell of a drug."
-That one wise man
Stephen Winchester I am with you, just amazing and beyond my comprehension of my little brain that subatomic molecules can do this and the ones who discovered it. And people wonder if there is a higher being that created all of this. Lol
They accidentally blew up a nuclear reactor...
The early versions were quite a different design; significantly harder to get exactly right, and had a lower maximum yield due to the limitations built into that design.
So, it's a matter of fiddling with the design bit by bit, changing things here and there, finding out what *doesn't* work, etc., etc., etc., ... *lotsa* work and brain-time!
Except that *this* video makes a short-cut for ... whomever!
The Manhattan Project is a fascinating bit of history. If you really want to know how they figured it out, start there.
So how do you intend to build a nuclear bomb?
Me: First I will get some styrofoam and we will see from there.
Environmentalists - That's not eco friendly. Use the bio degradable stuff. LOL.
@@robertthomas5906 it's a shame they don't realize not even primordial soup would be left behind in any environment of a nuclear detonation lol, gods gonna need to work for another seven days to get that shit up and running again...
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Me: ok
You need weapons-grade styrofoam. :-)
The most amazing two things aside from the incredible amount of energy stored in the fuel is the fact that the blast impact from the fission bomb cannot reach the hydrogen fuel before the x rays and the mathematics and scientific calculations it took to realize what is needed to contain the energy of the fission bomb for long enough to cause the compression of the fusion cylinder.
Agreed. Also fascinated by timeframe everything happens and precision, technical challenges for compression of fission fuel with chemical implosion. That's some another level engineering
"These things don't just kill, they annihilate. We humans have become quite efficient at it"
We're human. You're part neanderthal..so don't give us real humans a bad name. Real humans wouldn't even think to create something like this. Only a devil can imagine such destruction.
@@Spyder8561 The first step to change as a person is to accept your flaws. Accept that humans are not divine or superior creatures, we are all but animals doing what animals do best, reproduce and kill each other, being good or evil is not a matter of DNA it is a matter of character.
@@Spyder8561 Nuclear weapons have legitematly done more good than bad. Without them there would've been a ww3 and it would've fucking destroyed Europe, nuclear weapons are the only things that stopped this. Armed conflicts would be overall much more common Around the world, a LOT more human suffering than in our timeline
@@Spyder8561 though I despise the thought of hydrogen bombs being used in a nuclear war they have done more good than bad so far. Nuclear weapons are a double edged sword. Though there's the very very small possibility of total nuclear annihilation they are an incredibly powerful deterrent. The main reason a third world war hasn't happened yet is because of nuclear weapons. Nobody wants to go to war thanks to the nuclear doctrine of mutually assured destruction.
The fact that you guys are justifying the creation and use of these weapons only prove the point I'm making 😈
Wow, best 10 minutes I have spent in quite some time. Thank you.
A, I was thinking the same thing.
Wow, it sure did not feel like 10 minutes.
This is an excellent explanation! The presence of Styrofoam in a hydrogen bomb was definitely news to me!!
yep, and PL Rod got a memtion too..
but thats ALL it got!!!!
i dont blame him for not going into detail though.. im worried to even type out the full name!!,
If I’m not mistaken it was also used in making napalm.
Nah it's actually polystyrene foam
Squid5464 Yeet thanks for clearing that up for me I remembered foam of some sort just wasn’t sure which👍
@@stevengilliam9327 why
My cousin, Dr Donald MacRae, worked at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He was a Canadian astrophysicist and worked with a small team of physicists on the purification of Uranium 238 for the Trinity bomb. There were a few Canadians involved throughout the Manhattan Project, he was one of them.
Thank you for this on how it all comes together!
Bro just doxxed his family, Putin's boutta come for him.
@@colbyr7811 I'm just surprised he's still alive in 2024
@@remyscar Putin's coming to get him, said he'll be there shortly. Just picking up some Mickey D's on the way
Fake this A and H bomb .... technically a huge hoax
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
The Radiance - Linkin Park
Oppenheimer quote, nice.
@@JJs_playground Oppy was quoting ancient Indian scripture, The Bhagavad Gita.
Noice quote papa oppen-hymen
An ancient Hindu text, quoted by an American
My favorite Einstein's quote, is ...
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well.enough"
Wasn't that Feynman?
@@ark1289 let's just chalk it up to a general scientists quote
If you only understand a simple explanation then you don't understand enough.
@@ark1289 There have probably been many many scientists throughout history that have said this
simple is relative.
The most perfect and clear explanation of how an H Bomb works I have ever seen. Thank you!
I have been studying Physics for 20+ years. And in all this time only two videos have been able to accurately describe these reactions thoroughly, completely simply. Only one part was incorrect. Nicely done.
Well are you going to tell us or is that a Secret?
I found the "FOGBANK". Funny how the old men were able to do it and kill a few, but the kids said "We have to be safe!".
They are cleaning up Y12, but there is still a cancer cluster.
WHICH PART IS INCORRECT
CAN YOU PLEASE ELEBORATE AND TELL US THE RIGHT PART
So THAT'S why my prototype doesn't work!!!!! 🤣 Which part is incorrect?
“Pointy heads are scarier”-dictator Aladdin
I see how..
anonymous mofo Aladeen 🤣🤣
Poor nuclear Nadal
Yeah this is round shape so it is not scary
where is NUCLEAR NADAL the PROCURER of WOMAN
My respect for styrofoam just went up several notches.
The foamed containers used by McDonald's to put their sandwiches in is actually recycled from bombs. Very few people are aware of that. :|
Now mix it with gasoline, and you have napalm
Hahahh
Amazing that styrofoam was first designed for nuclear bombs and now they are used in every product
@@Flyingfast79 Uhhh, nope. 1941. Look it up.
Styrofoam internals? So that explains when I dropped my wife's Amazon delivery, she exploded.
Hehehe
You can return her. Amazon has a good policy.
She was always a " TIMEBOMB " Its a variable that modern man is clearly aware of ! They WILL go off , its just a case of when .
Styrofoam? How environmentally unfriendly!
@@dskyyksd Yeah, that shit lasts forever!
I’m here after seeing Oppenheimer - sir, this video is brilliant. Simply brilliant. I learned a ton, and I am grateful for that.
*“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” - Albert Einstein*
By cockroaches.
Albert Einstein forget about sticks because for sticks we need trees and as you know the admin is nuclear scientist he explain everything will be converted to helium atom and there will be nothing just free election and neutron floating in air with helium atom then how the hell we will get sticks🤔🤔🤔
If ww3 kills everyone and everything who's going to be fighting ww4?? Plus when the sun implodes nothing will matter anyway.....
@@websolution7423 _"there will be nothing just free election and neutron floating in air with helium atom"_ - No, there won't. Are you an idiot?
@@Dannysince1985 _"If ww3 kills everyone"_ - No, it won't. It will just kill 99% of everyone. That will leave eighty million unlucky starving freezing and hunted people hiding from predators and each other.
_"when the sun implodes"_ - It won't. It will blow up to be a 'red giant', and then fade as a 'white dwarf'. If humans are still alive somewhere, it won't be in the Solar System.
"I know not with what weapons WWIII will be fought, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones."
~Albert Einstein
At least now we have an answer for the first part... all this thermonuclear stuff. Let's hope this quote will never turn to reality (but probably it will).
An Extinct species can't fight PERIOD :)
WW3 is already being fought with stocks and bonds. WW4? Sticks and stones if we're lucky.
Stones is all that will be left!
I disagree, they can leave behind booby traps for later victims,
The fact we human can even split atoms apart blows my mind let alone create temperatures hotter than the center of our sun..I wish I was this interested in fusion /fission back when I was a student as I am as an adult. Great video
Fission and fusion are entirety natural phenomena. All mankind is doing is harnessing nature. That said, I have doubts about the plausibility and existence of fusion weapons.
@@paulanderson79 pure fusion weapons dont exist and they dont have to...like explained triggering fusion with fission works just fine.
I really wonder why some ppl do not believe that fusion is something we can achieve in our power plants or that Its even real, like whats up with that?
@@Balnazzardi Fusion is absolutely real. It's an entirely natural phenomenon. However, fusion does NOT occur in commercial power reactors, nor in medical or research reactors. There is no such thing as a man made fusion reactor. All reactors are fission reactors.
From a purely scientific perspective I wish to point out that belief form no part of information. It's a dangerous and very easily exploited emotion.
@Advocatus Diaboli "scaled down...to give the pilots who were tasked to drop it a chance of survival."
Lmao.
Your never to old to learn something, don't let anyone tell you otherwise
ive watched about 3 videos covering this topic already and this is the first time i think that i actually understand it
I wondered about the science behind them and what the implosion part actually meant and your diagram really helped, this really opened my eyes to the level of research that went into destruction and I feel uncomfortably moved by it. That was horrible - thank you ☮️
Couldn't have said that better myself
What was horrible?
@@spaceman081447the fact that good people researched, built, and tested such a horrible weapon, and the fact that they are still being produced.
@@Head-Tr1ck
Nuclear weapons and the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) are what prevented a major war between the USA and the USSR. The military conflicts between the two sides were carried out entirely by proxy wars.
The making of tools and weapons is intrinsic to human nature. Once the principles of fission and fusion were discovered, it was inevitable that they would eventually be developed into weapons.
Fission was first discovered in Germany in 1938. The US started working on the Bomb out of fear that Nazi Germany would get one first.
Actually, the United States has shown remarkable restraint over the decades of the Cold War. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the US could have easily nuked the USSR while suffering minimal casualties. During the Korean War, there were people who wanted to nuke China. During the Vietnam War, there were people who wanted to nuke North Vietnam. Neither of those things happened.
When you think about a fact that a part of a penny contains enough energy in mass to annihilate small city...It's quite unbelivable.
Actually a physical penny has even more, but turning copper into fuel for fusion is way too hard
the penny does not contain that much energy, it IS that much energy.
Nate The Smart Gate same thing lol
In an electrical explosion. The conductor material that arcs will expand to 64,000 times their original size. I have seen some hellacious arcs and only the very tips of the corners of the connecting lugs were melted from the arc. It is said that a bolt of lightning is less than the diameter of a human hair.
@@martinicc67 mate, you haven't met my ex missus's mother!
She was TINY, but she could clear a city block with one big hairy armpitted grunt!
The x and gamma rays reaching the litium before the initial explosion of the atomic bomb is insane to think about. How were they able to have such an understanding of these atoms and chemicals that they could foresee the process. So interesting
Its easy. xrays and gamma rays travel at the speed of light. So they travel MUCH faster than the shockwave, since the shockwave pobably just travels at not even 1/10.000th of the speed of light.
Mathematics
Experiments. They reach a full understanding of x rays and gamma rays and all the materials involved (individually , of course), and then try to work out how each of them affect the other.
For example, you wish to know how a certain material conducts electricity, for that you must understand conductivity at an atomic and molecular level. And then use that understanding as a reference piece of knowledge to conclude how electricity would behave through another material.
Hopefully I was able to convey the concept I have.
And despite all that massive liberation of power, hydrogen bombs are still incredibly inefficient. If we ever get to figuring out an anti-matter bomb, it really is game over.
High school wave physics
Arvin. HUGE fan of the channel. Truly. Small request- can you turn down the background music slightly? Sometimes it’s too loud and competes with your voice
Thank you for such a well-crafted video. Not only did you lay out, in the most appropriate order, the elements required for the layman's understanding, but you perfectly anticipated the concepts where additional clarification was needed. Superb video!
Glad it was helpful!
@@ArvinAsh yes. very helpful i cant wait to
test it out...
I feel like I've learned forbidden knowledge.
Don't worry it's not like anyone has the technical knowledge to do it
Lol
Epsilon Xenos Einstein's has you now... Want some soup? It's yummie i hear.
Yes indeed. Feels weird
@@AhnafAbdullah No, it's not about "anyone", the difficulty lies in gathering the plutonium and the "styrofoam" material. Research "FOGBANK"
Of all the countless RUclips tutorials for helping the average guy understand this process, this one is by far the best, and easiest to understand.
We are all here after Oppenheimer! 💯
I'm actually here to correct the incorrect term at 6:12 not in "sequence" but in "sync". If it was exploded in "sequence" meaning one after another then it would fail. The whole idea is to implode the core at the same time in total sync.
Never seen it, just always had an interest in these things
Well no, I haven't watched it, nor do I care to watch it, but have always been interested in how the Sun works
nope i just like nuclear physics
Who is Oppenheim?
"It's the Lybians, they wanted me to build them a bomb. Instead I just gave them a shiny bomb casing filled with used pinball machine parts...RUN FOR IT MARTY!!!" - Doc Brown
Oh my god they found me. I don't know how but they found me.
This is heavy.
HA!!!! I read this in Doc Brown’s voice and wild mannerisms!! 😂
Hugh Jass Who?? WHO????
I wonder how they showed that movie in Libya.
RUclips : How Hydrogen Bombs work
Kim Jon Un : “interesting. 🤔”
Kim Jon Un : "....watching science fiction on youtube always make me laugh."
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The video is still padding on his windows 95 gateway tower and 56k dial up net connection
@@bulkzorage 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I hope the NSA doesn't find out I have styrofoam in my house.
:-)
I bet you have a mirror as well.
@@ronvosick8253 Shut up shut up shut up
Kurt he probably uses energizer lithium batteries :D
It could be worse!
Can you imagine the problems that you would have if you live in Kalifornia and they found out that you still have PLASTIC STRAWS and you vote Republican! ?
Best description of how nukes work ever put together on a video by far.
I feel better now, because when a hydrogen bomb explodes near to me at least I will know, how it works and die like A SCIENTIST LOL
Marcell Jónás Einstein's getting away with mass murder!
@@goosesteppa7642 Einstein didn't make the bomb , he just came up with the equation figuring hom much energy was contained in atoms. All atoms are made of energy just some release the energy when manipulated by man.
Iran: WRITE THIS DOWN QUICK
Bahaha
They don't even want a bomb. Stop believeing your murdering government.
Yes, we will bomb a civilian population as we did in Japan. Japan attacked a military and naval base in Hawaii. The US destroyed two Japanese civilian cities killing tens of thousands of women and children. Who has the moral high ground here?
Real Enemy OF the whole Universe is America!!! Every fu*kin war they started with some big nonsense state THAT every low IQ brain instantly receive as a "real deal"... America's biggest Enemy is the gouverment OF the same state...
@@fromanabe8639 you obviously have zero knowledge about the pacific war
Fascinating video. During the peak of the Cold War, I was a Staff Sargent (E5) stationed at a SAC base in northern Maine. We had nine B-52's on 24 hour alert loaded to the teeth with nukes and fuel. Target: Moscow. I was on a detail responsible for securing the weapons convoy route between the flight line and the nuclear weapons storage area. While standing on the side of the convoy route, I actually got to see real nukes up close and personal as the convoy passed by. The nukes are mounted on special racks that mount in the belly of the B-52. The weapons transfer happens at night. The transport vehicles are brightly illuminated and carrying heavily armed personnel. That was an experience I'll never forget.
Fascinating story!
Great story, I wish many more would forward and tell their nuclear tales.
Don't you think it's secret?
@@ijya6413 ... no base there anymore, and loading procedures have changed since then, and he isn't giving details as to exactly what happened at either end of the convoy or even just what they looked like.
No worries here.
You knew the target Moscow. I don't think so that's highly classified info
This provides more context than most videos about this subject. Thank you for providing more clarity. Cheers, mate...☀
Amazing we haven't found a cure for cancer but 75 years ago we found a way to make a hydrogen bomb.smh
no need to discover cure for cancer we will die anyway of hydrogen bomb. .a number of earthlings will survive the conflagration become mutants and cancer resistants. .
There is but not an effcient one
The cure of cancer is founded long years ago i think ,but for marketing purpuse and hight cost chemical treatment ,they prefer to let people die and make money rather than giving people that real cure
What if we have the cure but it doesn't work on rat
Romulo Ambay Cancer is literally just rogue cells that don’t stop dividing. Cancer immunity isn’t possible.
What truly blows my mind is the fact that all these processes happen simultaneously and less than a blink of an eye.
Your blink analogy has me worried for your mental state tbh.
550 billionths of a second mate....
you can make a tonne of money if your eyes blink at the rate of "500 billionth of a second"...
This was the best compact and fascinating science video I’ve ever seen from a ytber with less than 30k subs
Wow this is the most clear, simplified and complete explanation.
It's amazing that human beings will use their intellect to devise things like this, purely to destroy each other.
Very well done presentation! I was not aware of the polystyrene component and the very important function it performs.
It seems to me that Bendix Corporation in Kansas City had something to do with this plastic sheeting on such weapons.
@Vulcan Logix ______ No nuclear weapon uses antiproton initiation, lol. Regular proton beams have been used though.
I have become death, the destroyer of worlds. -robert Oppenheimer.
Actually, that is a quote from the Hindu Bhagavad Gita.
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita.
Austin Melbourne
Good job on hookin up Oppenheimer's quote with this video kid, shows you're thinkin👍👍👍
@@dukecraig2402 cringe
Better him than the Japanese at the time
The nuclear explosion shown at the very beginning of the video and captioned, August 6, 1945, was actually the TRINITY test device detonated at Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
At 6:16, Dr.Ash says that the conventional chemical explosives detonate "in sequence." This is not quite right. They actually detonate simultaneously. This is essential so that the sphere of fissile material (either plutonium or uranium) is compressed evenly from all sides, otherwise criticality will not be attained.
Me: learn yoga..
Tube: recommendation"how hydrogen bomb works"..
U poor inocente sap: when u do yoga you permit lots ofevil demons into your body!!
@@stephenkavanagh3560 yoga destroys evils and provides health, Right knowledge gives devotion and leads to god.
Me: goes to bed
@@stephenkavanagh3560 you are so stupid
@@somedumbozzie1539 wow. Why coz he is brown? Just so u know even if u spend more than many lifetimes studying Yoga u still won't be a Yogi. The excercise part that you call Yoga is just the warm up for u to help u sit for hours and days in intense meditation of different kinds to deeply understand the universe or yourself and things that are higher than this universe.
Very informative. Thank you for actually talking to us like we are adults. I started a few other vids; from other guys, and it was obvious they were trying to make it seem cool to an immature high schooler.
You kept it on point, informative and mature. Well done, Sir.
This is the clearest explanation I've seen of how it all works.
Also, easy-on-the-ear narration and no crazy music. Thank you!
Thanks Mr. Ash;
once again, a very concise and tidy delivery. Palatable in the way you intensely simplify the topic but it's necessary. Splendid. You're one of the individuals making youtube worthwhile. 👌🏻
Really detailed great video. Kind of amazing that all happens before it gets blown apart.
It's all about the speed difference between thermal/chemical reactions and radiation/nuclear reactions.
Hi FBI guy, This just popped up in my recommendations. All good, im a good guy, I swear.
The CIA still plan to murder us.
I only have a long beard because the barber shops are closed.
@@goosesteppa7642 If the CIA really wanted you and I dead, we would be dead.
@@crocodile1313 So true!
WOW ur so funny and original. Good job
Finally someone who can clearly explain this topic 👏
Doing my homework before watching Oppenheimer!
I like how he didn’t have to get political about nuclear weapons and was still able to make a quality, entertaining, and educational video. Round of applause to you sir.
Teaching should never be political.
@@Blueknight1960 But yet our colleges these days are ran by evil and vile activists who call themselves teachers.
@@bongobob7079 True, all I said is teaching should never be political.
In fact, by not listing Israel or Pakistan in the "atomic club," this video is political. Most statements are.
He left out Israel and Pakistan in the nuclear countries list and thus made it political. I'm sure he is smart enough to know but ignored them on purpose. Not sure why though.
Best explaination of the Teller-Ulam model I ever found online.
this is much scarrier than the scarriest horror movie I've ever watched.
Yes because horror movies are just that, movies. They’re not real, but this is very real and very dangerous.
I think it's fascinating, though. Not the part of murder and death, but the science behind all of it. The fission and fusion show us e=mc² working, that's just beyond thinking to me, nuclear forces are amazing.
The nuke is so extremely terrifying that no world powers have gone to war with each other since its development.
@@singularityphoenixx it really do prevent us from war, but once it do happen it will be really terrifying.
Thank you for avoidning the ghastly jump cuts so beloved of so many RUclipsrs.
"Humans haven't progressed from throwing stones at each other. We've just got more efficient at it".
“We’re not throwing stones, we’re throwing stuff a lot more powerful,”
@@bakon3226 And a lot further too. No hiding behind a tree with these bad boys. The trees become collateral damage.
And we are still slinging thing's at eachother. As u said though. Throwing more devastating things. And further.
Great job explaining all this without being confusing because of technical bloviating
Except that without the 'technical bloviating' too many people are now thinking that almost *anyone* who wants to can put together an H-bomb and fry a whole city! I can hear it now ... thousands of people telling others 'this video online tells you *exactly* how to build an H-bomb!'
Oy! 🙄
Coming from a couple of bad videos I was expecting less. I was surprised this one was real information and well presented. It also was efficient and entertaining. Thanks
Same. So many youtubers add comedy, obnoxious music and personality which has no place for a topic such as this
This is the most convincing and perhaps easily understood explanation of the H bomb.
Not saying I could make one mind you !
I watch this sort of stuff all the time and this guy has produced one of the finest I've seen. Nice job!
I clicked the "Like" tab for this video, but I really wish there was a "Scared Shitless" tab!!
Awesome to know it’s gonna be a lot more calming when one of these vaporizes my family apart me included ! And it’s all due to the simplicity of the most underrated saying of my lifetime .........
E= mc 2 or aka toast from coast to coast !
Greg Gregory What on earth makes you think Trump would do this?
Greg Gregory Iran shout down a US drone and he wasn’t even willing to retaliate by killing 150 people. Also, he’s taking the necessary baby steps to disarming NK. What logic has led you to believe he would want to kill hundreds of millions?
I like toast! :D
Absolutely fascinating. I watched this over and over to absorb it, i even took notes to help my retention. Thank you, sir, very impressive explanation.
I love this guy's confidence and information but i especially love his hairstyle. This was an awesome quick explanation of a complicated scientific process to introduce non scientists (like me, a graphic a graphic designer) to an interesting yet terrifying subject. Subscribed immediately.
You're beautiful
Cool. I will note that most fusion bombs deployed today are not in the MT range, but 100's of KT range. Also, you didn't mention boosted weapons, which I believe is just a way to make the primary in the fusion bomb smaller. Great stuff!
A 200 kt nuke weighs 200 lbs. Boosting the fission (first part of the) bomb does reduce the amount of fissile material (extremely expensive), but most of the energy comes from the second stage of the device (the lithium deuteride fusion stage).
@@singularityphoenixx who gave this relation? Yield to weight ratio depends upon design efficacy.
Boosting does greatly reduce the size/mass need for the primary because boosting greatly increasing the neutron economy. Boosting also makes the weapon resistant to pre-detonation.
Most deployed nuclear weapons still generate a lot of energy from fission in the secondary. You can make weapons that get a higher proportion of their energy (therefore, less fallout) from fusion, but they are going to be bulker and heavier, which is not what you want for a weapon. And although fallout is bad, it is not nearly as bad as killing 100,000s of people with one weapon.
It blows my mind that more people dont know who you are. Then again I'm grateful you aren't too "hollywood" yet and you actually care about knowledge and sharing it with people you dont know. ....I for one appreciate so so much what you do. I wish I could meet you and hang out just to hear some of the amazing things that bounce around that awesome psyche of yours !
Wow, thanks my friend! That may be the best compliment I've gotten here. I really appreciate it.
@@ArvinAsh well that just made MY day !!!...I hope you know it isnt just me sir ...I think as a society we are slowly but surely losing the inherant urge to question and explore. So because you are doing what you do it pretty much makes you a walking wonder...like a mobile UNESCO site or something. Lol...Idk..but THANK YOU SO MUCH and keep on going....some of us are paying astute attention !!!
That’s… ridiculously amazing… now I can explain this same thing to my school in tomorrow’s physics lecture. My teacher assigned me job to carry out nuclear physics while I like astrophysics ;( but thanks to you I’ll explain all bombs and how they work with relation of E=MC^2.. I knew about atomic,nuclear and thermonuclear bombs but now I know about hydrogen bombs too.. my stupid self till the point thought that hydrogen bombs are nothing but plasma reactors which when exploded, releases a huge amount of energy due to tritium isotope.. I didn’t know how plasma come in it, but now I know it’s complex system of tritium,deuterium,nuclear fission,nuclear fusion,uranium 235/plutonium 241, berrylium, foam and lastly E=MC^2 but the main thing is, it takes 600 billionth of a second is just.. hats off
Then you really need the correct equation for changes happening that fast. The correct equation is E² = (pc)² + (mc²)²
@@buckhorncortez
p = momentum in kilogram-meter per second (kg·m/s)
c = speed of light through the aether or vacuum = 299,792,458 meters per second (m/s)
m = mass in kilogram (kg)
Good video but I think that you should have gone into more detail about the foam and it’s purpose. It isn’t styrofoam, for one. If it was, then the US government wouldn’t have had a program to reengineer the foam since they forgot how it was originally made (see FOGBANK). You accurately explained about its partial purpose but the other purpose of the foam is to minutely slow the travel of radiation coming from the fission bomb. The presence of the foam instead of air gives the fusion bomb enough time to reach critical rather than air. With air, the the fusion bomb wouldn’t work properly. I think that you should have used the lingo “reflector” instead of mirror, too. But other than that, great video. It’s probably one of the best on YT.
Come on now, you don't want me to give away all the secrets do you? There are bad guys watching too!
@@ArvinAsh How much time did we spend just figuring out how to actually machine Plutonium? What are the specific assay, purity, and alloy numbers? What does the finished pit even LOOK like? Think you are probably OK...
“10 mile radius”
Tsar Bomba: “hold my beer.”
Yes
@@jrjr4213 I thought it was 28…
@@anonymousdude7982 now they have one call Satan from Russia.
@@jrjr4213 Yeah, just looked it up, Satan two launches multiple warheads that could take out France…
@@anonymousdude7982 yes thats a very serious weapon no jk. So when they said Satan is on the way o just hold on to my 🍺.
This man gives a very detail explanation, and I listen very carefully like I want to create one tonight
Can I borrow a bag of uranium powder?
Gifted communicator of complex topics. Remind me of Carl Sagan.
This was explained really well, thank you Arvin.
I have always wondered how such a horrific weapon works. Now, I have an solid inclination on how Thermonuclear weapons work. Excellent work!
BEST 10 MINUTES IN THE DAY, Thanks for the video Arvin ach 😀👍
This video explained the 1955 technology very well. The real modern nuke warheads are even much smaller because the bulky TNT + Plutonium fission initiator is replaced by a Coke bottle size initiator. So that multi-warhead missiles are the preferred weapon. 😉😎
well that and they have lower yields. also, more efficient compression of fusionable fuel probably allows one to ditch the central ignition plug while fusion tampers made from U235 are more energetic than U238.
@@martinofgliwice1486 Tritium and Deuterium play very critical roles to initiate and enhance the fusion and fission chain reactions under tens of million degree temperatures and million psi pressure environments. In a very small volume container. 🤔🤗🙃
I still does not understand why this youtube channel does not have 2 to 3 million subscribers.
MIBs, of course!
This channel deserves a lot more subscribers. Keep up the great work sir, sooner or later the many more other knowledge seekers will come to know of this channel as well.
Thank you sir for the great explanation , the best I have ever seen
In all my years or reading (I have adhd) and trying to watch stuff about nukes from creation, to use to now you've explained this the best so far. I've subbed.
Thanks.. now i got to know how powerful these bombs are and how they work
"This thing don't just kill it annihilate" good closing words
It gives me goosebumps
Wow, such an absolutely incredible video! You did an amazing job explaining how everything works! Thanks for taking the time and putting this together. 👍🏻
A similar process involving lasers was used in the successful fusion experiment at Lawrence Livermore last week.
The capsule (hohlraum) containing the fusion pellet that was used in the experiment is basically a mini hydrogen bomb. The lasers take the place of the atomic primary in order to generate the x-rays to implode the fusion fuel.
Imagine seeing these Hydrogen bombs lying at arms distance away, and realising exactly what power are you looking at.
Makes you think about why someone would build one and how big her nads would be!
This is a great video. Not a guy talking in front of the camera all the time and great animations!
This is an excellent, yet short comprehensive tutorial about a very complex and extremely difficult process for anyone to understand properly .
Basic and understandable presentation, without fuzzy scientific expressions. Maybe you could mention designer of this kind of weapon but overall great video. Could you explain EMP and how it works? Subscribed👌
Best breakdown ive ever seen. Great video.
6:15 you've left off the end cap for the fusion secondary, which shields the end of the secondary from the X-ray and neutron flux from the primary... the way you're showing it, the secondary will most likely get disrupted before it can properly compress, resulting in a 'fizzle' as the secondary fails to ignite.
Also, most missile warheads these days have the explosives in the primary shaped more like a rugby ball, with a spherical secondary. The spherical secondary gives greater compression to the fusion fuel, burning it more completely. And if yield-to-weight is important, as it usually is in a missile warhead, the pusher layer is made up of highly-enriched uranium.
7:09The plasma from the styrofoam filler has very little effect on the secondary, what really causes the compression is the outer layers of the secondary's pusher layer vaporizing in the intense x-ray flux - for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction, so the vaporizing outer pusher layer causes the rest to violently accelerate inward, massively compressing the fusion fuel and fission "spark plug". About all the styrofoam plasma does is keep the radiation channel clear of the vaporized heavy-element pusher layer for a few extra nanoseconds, enhancing the energy transfer from the primary to the secondary.
Why don't you just post the blueprints for every terrorist out there. And a troubleshooting guide while you are at it.
@@dreggory82 This information is already widely available, the basic principles have been publicly known for several decades now... even if you had detailed plans (which this clearly is not) you still have to get several kilos of fissile material for the primary. That requires substantial infrastructure to produce, something only nation-states are really capable of doing.
I think I read before about the reaction process called "explosion-implosion". I also found that for a much higher yield, additional processes are needed, like "explosion-implosion-explosion" to ensure most fissile/fusion material goes critical. Most warheads are only in the 150 - 450 Kt range though, but there are still quite a few that go into the Mt's.
@@dreggory82 Ya these weapons need to be incredibly precise to work, meaning very, _very_ intricate machining. If one of the many parts of the weapon fail, the whole weapon fails. The engineering has to be very precise, most (if not all) terror groups will not be able to make a thermonuclear weapon anytime in the foreseeable future.
No one knows for sure about the precise details. The information is top secret, these are generalizations useful for the public. You can't go out and make a hydrogen bomb from this information.
@ Arvin....it takes quite a bit to scare me at pushing 70, but you're doing a remarkable job, my friend.....More, please!
I've wondered about the science of this, but was afraid to Google it. Thankfully it just showed up on my feed.