I was interested to notice that one of the explosions in Star War Rogue One was clearly modeled after H-bomb tests from Operation Hardtack.pic.twitter.com/iC3lc4BuEf
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I am not a huge Star Wars fan (I caught a few of the "easter eggs," like the guys from the Mos Eisley bar), but I do have an eye for nukes!
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There is a lot of nuke easter eggs/appropriation in Rogue One! Here is a piece I wrote for
@BulletinAtomic on thishttp://thebulletin.org/death-star-ultimate-weapon-mass-destruction10359 … -
In our podcast on Rogue One, I tried using NUKEMAP to model "single reactor death star," but 100MT limit foiled me! https://soundcloud.com/supercriticalpodcast/episode-13-star-wars …pic.twitter.com/REpas3dJgP
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Turns out the Death Star has a variable yield... Maybe Empire thought "Dial-a-Yield Planet Harm Machine" wasn't as menacing as "Death Star"
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