What Did We Once Assume Would Happen If You Detonate A Nuclear Bomb?
In 1942, some scientists theorized that detonating a nuclear bomb could produce such intense heat that it would cause a chain reaction that would set the atmosphere itself on fire. Within this theory, it meant that the bomb would kill all life on Earth. (It’s obvious that after America dropped Atomic Bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that we knew how much damage nukes could do. Yet the original assumption was defeated here. Today’s nukes, however, are more powerful.)