Funniest Times Humanity Almost Faced Nuclear Annihilation
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6 min readAug 18, 2020
A simple stick of dynamite, once used for mining and demolition as well as being birthday candles in Looney Tunes cartoons, contains an absorbent material soaked in nitroglycerin. When ignited, the chemical bonds inside of the dynamite are split apart which releases roughly 1 megajoule of explosive energy. The atom bomb, instead of splitting chemical bonds, splits apart atomic bonds to…
