---
title: "The Difference Between a Hydrogen Bomb and an Atom Bomb"
description: "The atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were terribly destructive. Hydrogen bombs are over 3,000 times as powerful. Here's why."
date: "2016-04-11"
modified: "2016-04-26"
authors:
  - name: "Jolene Creighton"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jolene-creighton"
url: "https://futurism.com/images/the-difference-between-a-hydrogen-bomb-and-an-atom-bomb"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "A Bomb"
  - "atomic bomb"
  - "fission"
  - "fusion"
  - "H Bomb"
  - "hydrogen bomb"
  - "infographic"
---

# The Difference Between a Hydrogen Bomb and an Atom Bomb

![A-bomb vs H-bomb featured image](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Screenshot-2025-09-21-at-2.08.52-PM-e1758500233834.png>)

![Atom bomb vs Hydrogen bomb infographic](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/A-BOMBvH-BOMB_v3.jpg>)

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