Q. Hydrogen bomb is based on the principle of:
Answer: uncontrolled fusion reaction
Notes: A thermonuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon design that uses the heat generated by a fission bomb to compress a nuclear fusion stage which indirectly results in greatly increased energy yield (i.e., bomb “power”). It is colloquially referred to as a hydrogen bomb or H-bomb because it employs hydrogen fusion, though in most applications the majority of its destructive energy comes from uranium fission, not hydrogen fusion by itself.

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