Cruel Bombs
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.Every cloudhas a silver lining.Except nuclear mushroom clouds, which have a lining of Strontium-90,Caesium-137 and other radioactive isotopes.Upon detonation, atoms are literally guttedand glutton at temperatures exceeding that of the surfaceof our Sun. In the 1950s, Harold Edgerton'srapatronic camera caught nuclear fireballs less than athousandth of a second after detonation. Using a special magnetic shutter,each exposure lasted only a billionth of a second and capturedan other-worldly creature, its energy vaporising the metal wiressupporting its tower into stringing legsof plasma. Watch the targeton the ground. Now, roughly visualized, here is a conventionalTNT explosion. Now, on the same spot,a similarly sized bomb that uses nu...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.Every cloudhas a silver lining.Except nuclear mushroom clouds, which have a lining of Strontium-90,Caesium-137 and other radioactive isotopes.Upon detonation, atoms are literally guttedand glutton at temperatures exceeding that of the surfaceof our Sun. In the 1950s, Harold Edgerton'srapatronic camera caught nuclear fireballs less than athousandth of a second after detonation. Using a special magnetic shutter,each exposure lasted only a billionth of a second and capturedan other-worldly creature, its energy vaporising the metal wiressupporting its tower into stringing legsof plasma. Watch the targeton the ground. Now, roughly visualized, here is a conventionalTNT explosion. Now, on the same spot,a similarly sized bomb that uses nu...
