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223: Oppenheimer & The Science of Atomic Bombs

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The Weight of Plutonium to the Weight of TNT

There were 6.9, 6.19 kilograms of plutonium inside Fat Man entirely. A kilogram is about the weight of a kilogram of flour. 16% of like six kilograms of plutonium was like thousands and thousands of tons of TNT equivalent. If that was plutonium, that is enough to destroy an entire city.

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