Perhaps setting the atmosphere ablaze would have been an exceptional success? I remember someone telling me that this possibility was still being discussed bef

Perhaps setting the atmosphere ablaze would have been an exceptional success? I remember someone telling me that this possibility was still being discussed before the Trinity test and, again, after thermonuclear bombs entered the arena. This seems to be a nice summary: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/chung1/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/chung1/