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The real danger from the test, looking forward, wasn't nitrogen-nitrogen fusion but from model uncertainty. The chance that some reaction they didn't think to model would cause or contribute to a chain reaction, as with Lithium-7 in the Castle Bravo test that almost killed the monitoring team.
Comment by SockAffectionate9449 at 15/08/2024 at 17:38 UTC
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Holy shit