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Currently Playing: Nuclear Weapons Q&A

Collection of Q&A about nuclear weapons, nuclear physics, and nuclear-explosion phenomena. 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. Critical Mass: when the atomic bomb got real https://youtu.be/LduH7613QXw Physics of a Nuclear Explosion https://youtu.be/6VSrGDOrWXc Series on Nuclear Weapons Physics https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_UV-wQj1lvUhNttvv4_KsYrQxHygj3Ey Affiliate links (may earn a commission) The Physics of the Manhattan Project, B.C. Reed, 4th Ed. (2021) https://amzn.to/3sI7KhH Testing new Samson Q2U mic https://amzn.to/3sRlkPL Documents & articles: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, US DoD & DoE https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6852629 Modeling the Effects of the Trinity Test, M. Semkow et al., Appl. Model. Comput. Nucl. Sci. ACS Symposium Series, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. (2006) Point kinetic model of the early phase of a spherically symmetric nuclear explosion, A. Aste https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01670 Plutonium A Wartime Nightmare but a Metallurgist's Dream, R.D. Backer et al. https://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-83-5074 "Critical Assembly Simulator" by Alex Wellerstein https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/misc/criticality/ Credits: Shot Nutmeg, Operation Hardtack I (1958), LANL and LLNL Blacksmith by Ruslan Khmelevsky https://www.pexels.com/video/video-of-blacksmith-hammering-metal-4652140/ Trinity test photographs by LANL The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, US DoD & DoE https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6852629 Gadget atop of Trinity tower by LANL Fat Man preparation by LANL Implosion animation by Fastfission, public domain Plutonium core mock-up by LANL Nuclear Weapons Archive by Carey Sublette https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/index.html Chapters: 00:33 Nuclear double pulse 03:27 Implosion and Pu compression