Making of bombs

We know that atomic bombs have unbelievable destructive power. The physics behind this disastrous nuclear weapon involves the forces which hold the nucleus together. Either fission or fusion is involved. There are three things needed for making an atom bomb: source of fuel (materials like Uranium and Thorium), a device for triggering and a way to fission or fuse majority of the fuel before the bomb explodes (otherwise the bomb will not explode properly). We might be wondering how an incredibly tiny particle like atom could produce so much energy. This can be explained by two important concepts. The first one is Einstein’s mass energy relationship given by E=mc². the second is the nuclear radiation which causes the harm. This equation shows that mass can be converted to energy and vice versa. The speed of light is a large value 3* 10⁸ m/s. when this is multiplied with the atomic mass, it will obviously give a large value for energy. Substances like Uranium and Thorium have large atomic numbers. They will have more number of subatomic particles than the naturally occurring elements. Hence these elements will have more power to release energy.