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Episode 536: The Manhattan Project Part IV - I Am Become Death

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How to Detonate an Atomic Bomb

An atomic bomb doesn't work like a conventional bomb and then it doesn't go boom when it hits the ground. What you wanted for maximum wow factor was to explode it at just the right height where the energy expended has a chance to travel as far out as possible. This both vaporizes anything organic in the immediate blast, Then it destroys anything in the shockwave radius. That is the sonic boom. And remember saying that in a scientist's cadence of how exciting this would be. It's the people that are creating AI right now. They're all like, this is going to be really bad.

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