Alex WellersteinVerified account

(For anyone who is ever tempted to wonder — the island in the actual Crossroads Baker pic is ~3.5 miles away from GZ. You'd get a little wind from a 20 kt bomb at that distance, but it is only about 0.7 psi of blast pressure. This is trivially easy to look up.)

Have you ever stalked the nuclear denier boards? That sort of sloppiness is the standard. Also anti-semitism.

I know I will regret it, but what are nuclear deniers? People who don't believe there are nuclear weapons?

They are fools who want to out-conspiracy other conspiracy theorists. They think (or claim to think) that nukes are just a hoax perpetuated by, uh, EVERY government and EVERY scientist, to keep us all afraid.

Their rhetorical technique is to pretend they understand the science (they think fast-neutron fission reactions are impossible, which is just empirically wrong), and to (Apollo-style) point out what they are think are "inconsistencies" with photographs, etc.