Size of a nuclear blast

Detailed calculation of how to find the radius of a blast wave using dimensional analysis and the work of G.I. Taylor to model the first nuclear explosion.

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G.I. Taylor's paper open access https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
My paper with Sam Rigby: https://link.springer.com/article/10....
Tom Scott visits Sam Rigby's lab    • No-one knows how explosions work (yet)  
Series on Nuclear Weapons Physics    • Physics of Nuclear Weapons  

Credits:

Shot Easy, Operation Buster-Jangle footage, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rudolf Peierls and John von Neumann portraits courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
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Klaus Fuchs' Los Alamos identity badge, Los Alamos National Laboratory
G.I. Taylor's paper open access by The Royal Society Publishing
Shot Grable, Operation Upshot–Knothole image and footage, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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