eli5 : Why didn’t the atomic bomb destroy the atmosphere?

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Like the scientists first assumed in the movie ‘Oppenheimer’.

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The bomb was tiny and the atmosphere is very big.

It did explode the air around the detonation but not to any degree larger than its blast radius.

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