Scientist Explores the Likelihood of Destroying the World with Atomic Bomb During Trinity Test
SANTA FE, New Mexico – In the film “Oppenheimer,” General Leslie Groves asks J. Robert Oppenheimer a pivotal question – what was the likelihood that the atomic bomb, about to be tested in the Trinity Test, would set the Earth’s atmosphere ablaze? Meanwhile, nuclear astrophysicists Michael Wiescher of the University of Notre Dame and Karlheinz Langanke of GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany, have delved into Oppenheimer’s assessment of this risk, examining the unexpected …