Ashton Forbes
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That's like you missed something major in your nuclear weapons calculations.
And this tracks.
This actually tracks with history.
We go look at the Castle Bravo test.
The Castle Bravo test was expected to be a six megaton nuclear bomb.
Instead, it ended up being 15 megaton.
Their excuse was that they put some lithium in there.
Can lithium increase the yield two and a half times over?
I'm highly skeptical.
And so was Salvatore Pais, U.S.
Navy engineer, when I brought this up to him.
Instead, what we think is that the nuclear weapons, they realized there was an extra energy source that they hadn't taken into account.
And that's why the yield was so high.
That's why Ferris Williams was able to correct it.
And so Ferris Williams corrects it, wins the case.
And all he was trying to do was help.
He was just trying to say, hey, we got these nuclear weapons stored over here.
This blows up.
It's gonna be way bigger than what you think.
He wins the case and he stops believing in physics.