what does a nuclear bomb actually do?
- Written by: Kaitlin Cook, DECRA Fellow, Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications, Australian National University
ShutterstockI would like to know what a nuclear bomb actually does – Rafael, age 11, Melbourne
Hi Rafael!
A nuclear bomb, like any bomb, makes an explosion by releasing an enormous amount of energy at once. Nuclear bombs just use a different process from other bombs.
You may have heard of atoms. These are the super-tiny particles that make up...
