Comments by "Dr Gamma D" (@DrDeuteron) on "What Happened When The USA Nuked Space (declassified)" video.

  1. From a neutron, gamma, and beta point of view, that makes no sense.
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  2.  @thomasszuba6875  ok. our gov lies: absolutely--just b/c my 4 decades of salary has been the result of DOE, NSF, and DOD (and NRC/Canada) money doesn't mean I'm deluded. I am just talking physics. I have a PhD in medium energy nuke fizz, and a lot of what I have done is about the interaction of radiation with regular matter, esp in the gamma energy range. The atmosphere is transparent in visible (which is why it evolved to visible) and much of infrared, which is why one would be cooked by a nuke. The gamma rays from nuclear interactions, and the hard X-rays from thermal emission cannot make it through the atmosphere. This is why X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes (Chandra, Fermi, irrc) have to be in space. No for real, I have been radiated at several national labs (mostly BATES and SLAC, and maybe LANL & ANL) and take this stuff seriously. Not to mention international labs such as DESY and TRIMUF.
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  3. Emp is caused by unshielded core gamma and hard X rays all hitting the upper atmosphere at once, creating a giant overhead current pulse
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  4. They nukes were smog tested.
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  5.  @michaellamb9596  but the radiation length of air is about 1/2 psi, which is much less than the 14.2 psi for an overhead burst.
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  6.  @michaellamb9596  you can’t convert g/cm^2 to psi? What is an atm in grams per sq cm times g? No googling….come on. See, I did you a favor.
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