> There might have been some completely unexpected physics at scale. But given that nuclear reactors were already a thing, that would have been very surprising.

> There might have been some completely unexpected physics at scale. But given that nuclear reactors were already a thing, that would have been very surprising. That sort of happened in a later test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo "Castle Bravo's yield was 15 megatons of TNT, 2.5 times the predicted 6.0 megatons, due to unforeseen additional reactions involving lithium-7"