How an H-Bomb works – or, How I Learned To Start Worrying And Hate The Bomb – an annotated infographic

Ever wondered what an H-Bomb is? How it works? What it does? Why we should all be terrified of it?

Answers, we got ’em, in the form of this H-Bomb infographic. Basically, your average hydrogen bomb in the street – that’s the H-Bomb to you, mate – is a thermonuclear weapon, see, that uses the energy from a primary fission bomb to ignite a secondary nuclear fusion reaction. Bish, bash, bomb. Job done.

The result is the most destructive weapon ever created by man. Good thing / bad thing? Discuss*.

Click on the graphic for an expanded view.

Boom bitch

 

*The correct – and only sane – answer is: bad thing.