Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were Hiroshima and Nagasaki targeted at the end of World War II? What happens to someone's body in an atomic bomb explosion? How does radiation work? Answers to these questions and plenty more await on Nuclear Science Support.
0:00 Nuclear Science Support
0:15 Who has nukes?
0:57 Who decides who gets to have nukes?
2:26 Was Iran building a nuclear bomb prior to Israel’s attack?
3:52 Nuclear football
4:42 What do you mean we lost them?
6:45 Why were Hiroshima and Nagasaki targeted?
10:21 Gun control parallels
11:38 ELI5 Enriched Uranium
13:48 Einstein and the Manhattan Project
15:11 Radiation remaining at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
18:47 What happens to someone in an atomic bomb explosion?
21:29 Fallout shelters
22:34 Chernobyl
23:47 Radiation: How does it work?
25:59 The biggest theoretical nuke
29:07 Duck and cover
30:53 How close did Nazi Germany get to the bomb?
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Editor: Paul Tael
Expert: Alex Wellerstein
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas; Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Arielle Baron
Casting Producer: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Camera Operator: Lauren Pruitt
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Additional Editor: Samantha DiVito
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
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