Explain- "Hydrogen bomb is more fatal than atomic bomb".
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Hydrogen bombs, or H-bombs, are far more powerful than the relatively simple atomic weapons North Korea was believed to have tested so far.
As opposed to the atomic bomb - the kind dropped on Japan by the US in the closing days of World War II - the hydrogen bomb can be 1,000 times more powerful.
North Korea's first three nuclear tests from 2006 to 2013 were atomic bombs on roughly the same scale as the ones used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which together killed more than 200,000 people.
However, the latest test is estimated to have a yield of about 100 kilotons, 10 times stronger than last year's test that caused a 5.3 magnitude quake.
A jubilant North Korean newsreader hailed the "unprecedentedly large" blast on state television, adding it "marked a very significant occasion in attaining the final goal of completing the state nuclear force".
The hydrogen bomb, also called a thermonuclear bomb, uses fusion - or atomic nuclei coming together - to produce explosive energy. Stars also produce energy through fusion.
Atomic bombs rely on fission, or atom-splitting, just as nuclear power plants do.
The technology of the hydrogen bomb is more sophisticated, and once attained, it is a greater threat. It can also be made small enough to fit on a head of an ICBM.
"Such a device could evaporate the entire city of New York completely - no one would stay alive," Andrei Lankov, a professor of Korean studies at Kookmin University in Seoul, told Al Jazeera.
"With an atomic bomb, you can kill half of Manhattan, at most."
As opposed to the atomic bomb - the kind dropped on Japan by the US in the closing days of World War II - the hydrogen bomb can be 1,000 times more powerful.
North Korea's first three nuclear tests from 2006 to 2013 were atomic bombs on roughly the same scale as the ones used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which together killed more than 200,000 people.
However, the latest test is estimated to have a yield of about 100 kilotons, 10 times stronger than last year's test that caused a 5.3 magnitude quake.
A jubilant North Korean newsreader hailed the "unprecedentedly large" blast on state television, adding it "marked a very significant occasion in attaining the final goal of completing the state nuclear force".
The hydrogen bomb, also called a thermonuclear bomb, uses fusion - or atomic nuclei coming together - to produce explosive energy. Stars also produce energy through fusion.
Atomic bombs rely on fission, or atom-splitting, just as nuclear power plants do.
The technology of the hydrogen bomb is more sophisticated, and once attained, it is a greater threat. It can also be made small enough to fit on a head of an ICBM.
"Such a device could evaporate the entire city of New York completely - no one would stay alive," Andrei Lankov, a professor of Korean studies at Kookmin University in Seoul, told Al Jazeera.
"With an atomic bomb, you can kill half of Manhattan, at most."
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A hydrogen bomb can be far more powerful than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Japan in World War II. The US conducted the first successful tests of hydrogen bombs in the 1950s. Their yields of 10,000 kilotons and more were several hundred times larger than the bombs that levelled Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Experts believe the yield of North Korea’s latest test was at least 140 kilotons, which would make it some seven to eight times as powerful as Hiroshima (15 kilotons) and Nagasaki (about 20).
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