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 …
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Replying to @380kmh
Thanks for the comments..lets go back to my original tweet.. What is wrong with asking an author to be historically and scientifically accurate? After all J. Robert Oppenheimer was "The Father of the Atomic Bomb," not the nuclear bomb, and that is the weapon we used on Japan.
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Replying to @MrNiceG68370000
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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Replying to @380kmh @MrNiceG68370000
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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Replying to @380kmh
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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Replying to @MrNiceG68370000
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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Replying to @380kmh
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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