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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
Dwarkesh Podcast
The True Nature of the First Nuclear Weapons
The first nuclear weapons were designed to start mass fires, not just cause explosions./nHiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as targets to study the damage effects of a nuclear bomb./nThe effects of radiation were calculated to primarily affect those closest to the epicenter of the explosion./nNuclear weapons are essentially fire bombs./nThe military mainly calculated the blast effects when targeting with nuclear weapons, leading to overkill./nA nuclear warhead detonated over the Pentagon would cause a mass fire that reaches the beltway.
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