A nuclear weapon powered by a fusion reaction is called *thermonuclear,* not just "nuclear," which refers to any weapon that derives its power from a nuclear reaction. The colloquial version of "thermonuclear bomb" is "hydrogen bomb." This is easily looked up in any dictionary.https://twitter.com/MrNiceG68370000/status/1053283846815473665 …
Because "atomic bomb" is at best a subset of "nuclear bomb," rather than a distinct category, and at worst it's a colloquialism itself, as "Father of the Atomic Bomb" was only a popular title, not an official one (the scientists working on the Manhattan project said “nuclear”)
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Ask anyone and they'll confirm that atomic bomb : nuclear bomb :: square : rectanglehttps://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-atomic-and-nuclear-bomb …
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Having read "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes, I will have to continue to disagree. Have a good day.
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Literally on page three of that book Rhodes himself refers to the bomb dropped on Nagasaki as a *NUCLEAR* bomb, come off it manpic.twitter.com/jk79WQLykk
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Not sure how you are reading that in that sentence. Clearly when he wrote that book, none of the nuclear powers had fission weapons in their arsenals. they were all fusion, thus the use of the word nuclear.
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"not one nuclear weapon SINCE Nagasaki" as in the weapon used at Nagasaki was a nuclear weapon
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