Brian Cory Dobbs
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Okay.
There's lots of public pushback because they were afraid it was going to start earthquakes and destroy the world and stuff.
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It was the most powerful underground weapons test.
And a few years or much later, decades later, they declassified the fact that they used thorium.
This maximizes, this supercharges the thermonuclear detonation.
So thorium is a key component to all this.
Without thorium, you don't get to the xenon-129.
And the thorium is what we see on Mars, those thorium hotspots.
So we have precedent here on Earth for using thorium to do this.
And if you go two slides forward, Ryan, you'd see this is what they filmed.
This is what it looked like.
just the whole earth just uplifting.
And I don't know if you can replay it.
I think they dug down really deep.
Maybe there wasn't radioactive concerns here on the surface.
I don't really know.
But, you know, why do they do any atomic tests?
You know?
Do that one more time there, Ryan.