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The Tsar Bomba yield everyone quotes was never detonated. Swapping lead for uranium halved the bomb and cut its fission output by 97%.
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Physics, semiconductors, and the engineering behind the AI build-out. Written by someone who worked at CERN and in the data centre industry.