This is a list of the types of bombs.
For a list of individual nuclear weapons and models see List of nuclear weapons
| Type | Information | Date created | Inventor | place of origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrel bomb | Improvised aerial bomb | 1948 | Israel | |
| Blockbuster bomb | "High capacity" bomb for maximum blast effect, only used during World War II | April 1941 | United Kingdom | |
| Bouncing bomb | Skips across water; designed to attack German dams in World War II | April 1942 | Barnes Wallis | United Kingdom |
| Bunker buster | The first type were Röchling shell | 1942 | August Cönders | Germany |
| C4 | 1956 | |||
| Car bomb | A vehicle is packed with explosives and detonated. | |||
| Cluster bomb | Over a hundred nations outlaw them now. The first one was Butterfly Bomb | Germany | ||
| General-purpose bomb | ||||
| Glide bomb | ||||
| Guided bomb | ||||
| Improvised explosive device | ||||
| Land mine | Explodes when pressure is applied to the bomb. Outlawed in 164 nations. | 1832 | Ming Dynasty | |
| Laser guided bomb | ||||
| Molotov cocktail | Improvised incendiary grenade often made in a beer bottle | |||
| Nail bomb | 1970 | |||
| Pipe bomb | ||||
| Pressure cooker bomb | the pressure of the pressure cooker places high explosive power | |||
| Smoke bomb | 1848 | United Kingdom | ||
| Stink bomb | Stink bombs range in effectiveness from simple pranks to military grade or riot control chemical agents. | 1943 | ||
| Suicide vest or suicide bomber | China | |||
| Suitcase bomb | Nuclear bomb designed to fit inside a suitcase. | 1950s | ||
| Thermometric bomb | ||||
| Time bomb | ||||
| Trinitrotoluene | Commonly known as TNT | 1863 | Julius Wilbrand | Germany |
| Unguided bomb | ||||
| MOAB | Massive Ordnance Air Burst. Colloquially known as the Mother of All Bombs. | United States | ||
| FOAB | Father of All Bombs | 2007 | Russia | |
| Electromagnetic bomb | 1962 | |||
| Napalm bomb | ||||
| Dirty bomb | scatters radioactive material | |||
| Nuclear bomb | 1945 | United States | ||
| Tsar Bomba | October 1961 | Soviet Union | ||
| Cobalt bomb | A nuclear bomb designed to spread as much radiation around as possible | |||
| Hydrogen bomb | second-generation nuclear weapon design using non-fissile depleted uranium to create a nuclear fusion reaction | 1952 | Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam | United States |
| Neutron bomb | A nuclear weapon designed to destroy with lethal radiation while not damaging structures. | |||
| BLU-82 | Used for creating clearings in forested areas |
