Fusion: The Hydrogen Bomb

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nuclear fusion weapons bomb cold war arms race WWII World War II heavy elements uranium hydrogen fission atoms nuclei bonds form helium mass defect conservation loss reduction energy E=mc2 Einstein conservation of mass thermonuclear reaction kinetic deuterium tritium ions lithium matter state change solid gas plasma lasers fuel power
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Science History-Social Science STEAM
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Fusion: The Hydrogen Bomb

This video from American Experience describes a hydrogen fusion bomb and shows that fission and fusion are the reverse processes of each other. Both processes generate energy, but fusion generates significantly more energy than fission. 
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PBS Learning Media

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