Interesting. I didn't know that the energy we can create with such a simple tool was enough to tear apart chemical bonds. In my head these bonds are somehow a few magnitudes stronger.
When you cut something with a knife or rip it apart with your hands you're also breaking chemical bonds. Some chemical bonds are weak enough that just normal light can break them apart. Stuff like Nitrogen triiodide decomposes whenever it feels like.
Stuff that has "nitrogen" in its name usually decomposes whenever it feels like, and humans generally don't like the results of that process - especially if they're standing nearby.
These bonds are about 1/1000th of typical chemical bonds, the article says.
Whenever you boil a kettle you're breaking the same hydrogen bonds which provide the water its surface tension.
Hydrogen bridges are intermolecular forces. The same kind we break every day when we break stuff by hand. (The strongest variety of them, but still not chemical.)
The interesting here is how they are broken, not that they break.