Ed Helms
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I mean, I believe we've detonated nukes underwater.
We've detonated them underground.
We've detonated them at varying altitudes above
a theoretical populated area.
It's like, what is the maximal effect that we can create by detonating them in these various ways?
And just logically, it seems like the higher you go, the greater the impact to Earth.
Certainly in terms of fallout.
Right.
You would expect.
And so it just seems the higher you go, the dumber the experiment.
Yeah.
The least effective potentially at what you're trying to do.
Like if this is ideally something targeted, the higher you go, the wider a swath it covers.
Right.
That's the logic, and that's why they did it out over the Pacific without a lot of expectation or knowledge, foreknowledge about what could happen.
Turns out a lot.
So ever since World War II, the U.S.
and the Soviet Union had been on again, off again, testing nukes.
And in the late 50s, the Soviets had decided tests were very much backlogged.
on.