Alex Wellerstein on Twitter: "Visual illustration of the "double peak" of nuclear brightness. Nukes briefly dim b/c air bubble superheats and is opaque to visible light.… https://t.co/PbMSFzxN7k"

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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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Visual illustration of the "double peak" of nuclear brightness. Nukes briefly dim b/c air bubble superheats and is opaque to visible light.pic.twitter.com/jQp6NJlDLw

12:33 PM - 21 Mar 2017

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1. Dan Curtis Johnson‏ @dcurtisj 21 Mar 2017
  
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  Ah! I was just wondering about that recently, watching the newly released films.
  
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1. David Mather‏ @subcritical29 21 Mar 2017
  
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  that's how we get the coolest detector name ever: The Bhangmeter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhangmeter
  
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1. Steve McGraw‏ @S_McGraw 21 Mar 2017
  
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  @PhysicsToday Beautiful images of such a horrifying device.
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