Alex Wellerstein on Twitter: "In 1945, the Los Alamos scientists concluded it would only take between 10 and 100 "Super" bombs to end the world. http://t.co/01I8ypmIP0"

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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

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1. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 15 Dec 2014
  
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  @wellerstein The deleted word seems to be "tamper," though that word is not deleted elsewhere in the document, which is odd.
  
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1. Stephen Schwartz‏Verified account @AtomicAnalyst 16 Dec 2014
  
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  @wellerstein We surpassed 10,000 Mt in 1957. Total US megatonnage peaked in 1960 at 20,491 (which equals ~1,366,067 Hiroshima-sized bombs).
  
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1. TOoᴼᵒº˙⁰0₀ₒ.·ph‏ @tophtucker 15 Dec 2014
  
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  @wellerstein What would you estimate today?
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1. Carl A. Christie‏ @AC1Carl 15 Dec 2014
  
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  @wellerstein How cheery.
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1. Pretty fly for a reply guy‏ @WildBilbo 15 Dec 2014
  
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  @wellerstein @rmathematicus ok, and how many would it take to get me out of having to go to work today?
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1. Katherine D Edmiston‏ @KatEdmiston 23 Dec 2016
  
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  w our current technology, it would take less than that amount, correct?
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