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Currently Playing: Size of a nuclear blast

Detailed calculation of how to find the radius of a blast wave using dimensional analysis and the work of G.I. Taylor to model the first nuclear explosion. To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/JKzero/ The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. G.I. Taylor's paper open access https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1950.0049 My paper with Sam Rigby: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00193-022-01089-z Tom Scott visits Sam Rigby's lab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar0klhiJfDI Series on Nuclear Weapons Physics https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_UV-wQj1lvUhNttvv4_KsYrQxHygj3Ey Credits: Shot Easy, Operation Buster-Jangle footage, Los Alamos National Laboratory Rudolf Peierls and John von Neumann portraits courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives Milk in the coffee by Mizuno K. on Pexels https://www.pexels.com/video/pouring-milk-in-the-coffee-13737095/ Active volcano by Pressmaster on Pexels https://www.pexels.com/video/footage-of-an-active-volcano-3192197/ Klaus Fuchs' Los Alamos identity badge, Los Alamos National Laboratory G.I. Taylor's paper open access by The Royal Society Publishing Shot Grable, Operation Upshot–Knothole image and footage, Los Alamos National Laboratory This video was sponsored by Brilliant