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From Richard Rhodes, on the moment of detonation of an atomic bomb:

“…..there is no time for any cooling to take place, and the temperature of a person’s skin can be raised 120°F in the first millisecond, at a distance of 2.3 miles.”

Did a double take on this one.

Update: nothing could have prepared me for what the rest of the book contains after this passage

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Not sure at that distance, but close to the hypocenter Rhodes paints a *very* graphic picture of exactly what happens

(49°C for the rest of us)

So what happens after that millisecond? Temperature increases 40x and everything organic gets sublimated?

It’s morbid but also fascinating, I must admit ☠️