The Ultimate Guide to Nuclear Weapons

What kind of demon lives inside the smallest constituent of matter, one that allowed a grapefruit sized sphere of radioactive metal to annihilate the city of Nagasaki? How could a bomb that weighed 29 tons explode with the power of 50 million tons of TNT? Nuclear weapons are, in many ways, the defining feature of the current technological epoch. They have given humanity enormous destructive power. Indeed, the ability to commit autogenocide. For better or worse, we all live in the nuclear age. The atom bomb, the hydrogen bomb, the neutron bomb, this guide will tell you everything you need to know about nuclear weapons, from the fundamental physics to nuclear weapon design to nuclear war theory. This is my ultimate guide to Nuclear weapons.

0:00 Trinity and the Fundamentals of Matter and Energy
12:40 The Atom Bomb
29:26 The Hydrogen Bomb
48:21 Tactical Nuclear Weapons
59:12 Strategic Nuclear Weapons and the Nuclear Triad
1:06:32 The Mechanics of a Nuclear Detonation
1:13:59 Blast Effects
1:19:04 Thermal Effects
1:20:55 Initial Radiation and the Neutron Bomb
1:29:06 Residual Radiation and Fallout
1:35:52 Combined Nuclear Effects on a City

Essential further reading:

"The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" United States Department of Defence

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