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How Nuclear Weapons Actually Work: The Physics Behind Atomic Power

The Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima packed the explosive power of 15,000 tons of TNT into a device the size of a garbage truck. That uranium core? About the size of a baseball. Tyla Cooper breaks down exactly how splitting atoms creates devastation on an almost incomprehensible scale, and why the physics behind nuclear weapons makes them fundamentally different from any other weapon in human history. 🎯 What You'll Learn: • How nuclear fission releases 2 million times more energy per pound than TNT • Why modern warheads are 1,000x more powerful than Hiroshima (and what that actually…

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