Can someone explain the feared runaway nuclear reaction that Oppenheimer presented Einstein in the film? The one where detonating a nuke would’ve exploded the whole world?
Wouldn’t that scenario require many orders of magnitude more energy than the output of the what the first (or current) nuclear weapons were capable of?
In: Physics
If you want more of a back story, here is [a pop-sci article](https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-fear-of-setting-the-planet-on-fire-with-a-nuclear-weapon) about this.
Latest Answers