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I mean, it’s a bomb fueled by the hydrogen fuel cell in the vehicle. Not sure what else you would call it when trying to differentiate it from something a traditional car or one made from a truck filled with ammonium nitrate.

Yes the term Hydrogen Bomb also refers to a thermonuclear device, but the same two word term han have different, yet similar, meanings.

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A hydrogen bomb is a thermonuclear weapon, so almost anything other than that.

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Hydrogen is a very simple atom, so how about cslling it the atom bomb?

edit: /s

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That name is also already taken. An atom bomb usually refers to the first generation of nuclear bombs that use only fission, e.g., those used in WWII. The hydrogen bomb refers to the second generation of nuclear bombs that use a chain reaction of nuclear fission and fusion to create bombs that are orders of magnitude more powerful.

For comparison, Fat Man was ~20 kilotons and the largest ever bomb (Tsar Bomba) was ~50,000 kilotons.

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And why would Yahoo Autos be where you found out Ukraine detonated a thermonuclear weapon in Russia?

The internet was a mistake. Everyone lost the ability for critical thinking or to even look where an article is from apparently.

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You don’t deserve to be downvoted for this. It’s a bomb, that uses hydrogen as fuel, what else would you call it?

And yes, Yahoo Autos is definitely not where you’d hear about this first.

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It’s journalistic malpractice to not call it something that would differentiate it from a nuke. Simply calling it “a hydrogen cell bomb” or “a bomb fueled by hydrogen” would still be just as accurate and not imply it’s a nuke.

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On the flip side, Ukraine detonating a nuke wouldn’t be something we’re discovering about on Yahoo Autos. That would be all over mainstream news everywhere.

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5 points

no one says hydrogen bomb referring to conventional arms. it’s not a thing.

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no one says hydrogen bomb referring to conventional arms.

Bold claim, considering you’re posting in a thread where the article does exactly that. 🤣

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fortunately, this stupid thread doesn’t encompass the rest of the ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD.

bold claim? pull your head out

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I’d also say a majority of people also don’t know the term in relation to nuclear weapons either. The average person is extremely uneducated about anything nuclear. They don’t know what differences between the original bombs the US dropped and modern nuclear weapons weapons might be. Even post-Oppenheimer film.

Differentiating between Nuclear and Thermonuclear weapons is something pedants in online forums do, not normies in the real world.

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I completely disagree with you. A hydrogen bomb has meant nuclear weapons for 50ish years to anyone with a passing familiarity - and a whole shitton of people learned during the cold war that there were nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, they built fucking shelters in their back yards lol.

so no, disagree with you.

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