did it though?
I’m fascinated by the whole thing and have watched lots of documentaries about Trinity, Bikini Atoll / Castle tests, the U.K’s race to build their own bomb (starting with the ‘tube alloys’ project), through to Tzar Bomba (the largest explosion ever carried out on earth by humans I think!) and then that one someone mentioned about British Guide To The End Of The World which was mildly terrifying, but fantastic
(I need to pluck up the courage to watch Threads at some point though )
Personally I’ve not thought the threat has ever gone away, but agree that the current crisis in Europe has put it back into public consciousness.
to bring this back on topic here’s something interesting I’ve found:
A rough estimate of the total energy in a thunderstorm can be made from the total quantity of water that is precipitated by the cloud. In a typical case, this energy is about 107 kilowatt-hours, roughly equivalent of a 20-kiloton nuclear explosion (though it is released over a broader area and in a longer span of time). A large, multicell storm can easily be 10 to 100 times more energetic.