I don’t want to set the world on fire but you’re setting Bikini Atoll on fire instead

tfw lithium-7 reacts as well The yield of 15 megatons was triple that of the 5 Mt predicted by its designers.  The cause of the higher yield was an error made by designers of the device at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The unexpectedly high yield of the device severely damaged many of the permanent buildings on the control site island on the far side of the atoll. Little of the desired diagnostic data on the shot was collected; many instruments designed to transmit their data back before being destroyed by the blast were instead vaporized instantly, while most of the instruments that were expected to be recovered for data retrieval were destroyed by the blast. -
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