The Nuclear Fusion Angle

There was a small possibility, a tiny possibility that they'd first nuclear explosion or any nuclear explosion because of the incredibly high temperature. The relatively high temperatures would cause the hydro- there's a very little amount of hydrogen in our atmosphere, very little. It could possibly cause the hydrogen to fuse together and give off a huge amount of energy which would trigger off more fusion reactions. And that could trigger off a global, planet-wide fusion reaction of all the hydrogen. There was also a possibility that the nitrogen itself might start burning up in the atmosphere. But various physicists calculated the probability of this happening and said it was negligible.

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