One of the most mysterious, yet terrifying realities of the modern world is the topic of atomic warfare. Not many people understand how it works, however they terrified of it as an imminent threat. A majority of people have the topic of atomic warfare hiding in the back of their heads but don’t think too much of it because it’s been years since a country has been attacked. A recent number of tests in North Korea has scared many Americans due to a history of tension between the two countries. The destructive history of atomic wars interested me in how an atomic bomb works. Atomic bombs use either Uranium 235 or Plutonium 239. What makes these two elements particularly special out of the 118 known elements is that they have unstable isotopes.
