Something tells me a teraton detonation would more or less wipe the planet clean anyway, quite aprt from any sustained igntition of the oceans...
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Not *totally* clean by itself, but it would do a lot of damage... the impactor that killed the dinosaurs was on the order of 120 teratons of energy. So that's a "make NEARLY everything extinct" level of energy release. A perfectionist would desire more...
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Great article!! I think I found a small typo here : "start an controlled fusion reaction" , should it be "start an uncontrolled fusion reaction"
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You are welcome!
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Fermi was just joking, but one scientist became so alarmed by Fermi's joke that he left Trinity and returned to Los Alamos.
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The way I heard the story from a chemistry teacher, they feared they might ignite the atmosphere in a CHEMICAL reaction, burning Nitrogen and Oxygen. And when looking into it, they supposedly discovered that reaction to be endothermic, so it could not happen.
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Haven't been able to really thoroughly corroborate that online though.
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