why won’t there be a nuclear explosion if a nuclear weapon is shot down?
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A nuclear bomb works by compressing a sphere. This is done with high precision triggering of many high explosive blocks. If all the blocks are triggered at the same time, the compression waves from their detonation will combine to compress the sphere of plutonium without deforming it. It’s like squeezing an egg until the shell breaks without rupturing the yolk inside. If you fire a bulled into one of the explosive blocks, it might detonate, but the compression wave would spread out from that point, like pushing your finger into the egg while it sits on a plate. That’s going to rupture the yolk every time.
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