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Basics of the atom bomb
The atom bomb in itself is simple to understand. The physical components, the materials, the basic design, a child could make the reasoning. The hard part is understanding the actual physics and the chemistry behind it. So lets get started shall we?
First you must understand the theory behind it and how it works, well get to the details later. Basically the atomic bomb uses uranium-235. The reason for this is because it is unstable. Which means it radioactively decays. What this does is causes the atom to release parts of itself, nuetrons and such. The advantage of having this happen is that everytime a nuetron is released a certain amount of energy is released with it and the actual nuetron contains a certain amount of Kinetic energy, which can be either measured or calculated. This energy is then transferred to other Uranium atoms around it, though it can't happen if the nuetron is moving too fast, so in order for most of the nuetrons to be "captured and absorbed" by the other Uranium atoms, it must reach what is known as critical mass. No it isn't just some stupid Hollywood jargon, it actually has a meaning. Critical Mass is easiest to explain by example, so here goes: For e.x., take a "ball" of uranium, make it perfectly round, there is an approximated distance that any one nuetron must travel before it will be slow enough to join with another Uranium atom. If the ball is too small, nuetrons will fly outside the ball and won't cause the uranium atoms to become unstabble enough. So there is a calculated size the ball must be a minimum size in order to cause the uranium atoms to react. Once critical mass is reached, the uranium atoms will rapidly decay and release all there bonded energy at once, the chain reaction of some of the uranium atoms depleting will cause the other unstabble but still un - reacted atoms to react, thus causing the well known mushroom explosion and the ever present danger of radioactive energy.
Now that we know what critical mass is, and how the atom bomb actually works, lets answer the question, how do they get the uranium in the bomb without making it explode on the spot and how do they get the uranium to initially react? Well the answer is simpler than you think. You see Uranium is much to radioactive when it reaches near critical mass, so the origianl pioneers of the atomic bomb had to engineer a way to insert the uranium into the casing without taking upon themselves massive amounts of radioactive energy or without causing it to reach critical mass on the spot. To further explain this we must dive into the actual construcion of the housing of the uranium. How this works is they construct a hollow round sphere with enough uranium that if they "scrunched" it all up there would be enough to reach critical mass, and then surround with and evenly distributed amount of explosives using a triton detonator system to deliver the awesome payload. The electronics must be simultaneously set off so that the explosives will detonate at exactly the same time causing the uranium to bunch up in what once was the hollow space, upon reaching critical mass the uranium will decay rapidly causing tremendous amounts of energy to expand rapidly outward destroying everything in its path.....
And thus we now know the basics behind the atomic bomb, its design, chemical make-up, and perhaps more importantly the engineering know how to set off the massive monster. ..ALSO THIS WAS NOT CREATED IN THE ATTEMPT TO MAKE A PERSONAL PROFIT OR FOR ANY OTHER REASONS OTHER THAN FOR KNOWLEADGEABLE APPLICATIONS!! I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY USES OF MY KNOWLEDGE IN ANY MANNER THAT IS DESTRUCTIVE OR CAUSING HARM OR DEATH!! SO HAVE FUN!!! (Basically this means if someone tries to build one from this knowledge and they get fmessed up or they mess someone up it AINT MY FAULT!!!)
