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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
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The Effects of the Nuclear Bomb on Japan
All nuclear weapons that have ever been designed are basically fire bombs. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were around to be atomic bomb because they'd been set aside from the target list. The flash of light was 10,000 degrees, the world's worst sunburn. If you exploded at 300 kiloton nuclear warhead over the Pentagon at 3,000 feet, it would blast all the way out to the Capitol.
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