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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
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The Doomsday Machine
The atom bomb is simply the detonator of a modern nuclear bomb, which is an insane thing to think about. The Hiroshima Nagasaki and the Sarbama was 50 megatons, so more than a thousand times as much. You could get like over 100, more than like 10,000 times as powerful. And that wasn't even as big as they can make it, right? They kept the uranium tamper off because they didn't wanna like destroy all of Siberia.
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