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Cai Guo-Qiang, “Color Mushroom Cloud” (2017), realized above the former CP-1 site, University of Chicago, on December 2 (photo by Zoheyr Doctor and Reed Essick, courtesy Cai Studio) CHICAGO — On ...

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Why do nuclear bombs make mushroom clouds? The phenomenon all comes down to a little something called the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, and by extension, convection. I’ll begin with the somewhat longer ...

From the Trinity test to “Oppenheimer” and “Asteroid City,” the symbol of nuclear destruction has held multiple but equally disturbing meanings. By Nicolas Rapold Witnesses to the Trinity test, the ...

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Capping a week when the last thing anyone wanted to hear about was news of a mushroom cloud, a viral photo of a glorious, impossibly symmetrical storm cloud has nevertheless entranced the internet ...