Episode 536: The Manhattan Project Part IV - I Am Become Death
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Enrico Fermi and the Moon
One scientist picked the equivalent of 45,000 tons of TNT. One technician went even further saying that Trinity was going to be a dud. The calculations have been done long before the Trinity test that showed that this doomsday scenario was effectively impossible. But the fact that they even had to do the calculations in the first place is indeed frightening.
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