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?
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Elements lighter than iron can release energy if they fuse. Some scientists wanted to know if the power from the nuclear bomb was high enough to make the nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere fuse, which would cause a chain reaction
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