5/16/22 Ethan Siegel: How Hot Are Nuclear Bombs?

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Ethan Siegel joins Scott to discuss the science behind the temperature of thermonuclear explosions. Scott is putting together a new book that argues for the abolition of nuclear weapons called Hotter Than The Sun. He wanted to talk with an expert who can actually explain how the bombs are able to reach temperatures that far exceed the center of the Sun. Siegel wrote an article on that exact topic a few years ago, so he’s the perfect person to answer that question. At the end, they also talk about some of the things to avoid if you find yourself in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. Discussed on the show: “Ask Ethan: How Can A Nuclear Bomb Be Hotter Than The Center Of Our Sun?” (Forbes) Ethan Siegel is an astrophysicist, author, professor and science communicator. He’s won numerous awards for science writing since he began blogging in 2008. His blog Starts With A Bang is now housed at Forbes. Follow him on Twitter @StartsWithABang. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
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0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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0:50.0	And he is the editor of Starts with a Bang,
0:53.5	which is the science contributors group
0:56.2	at Forbes magazine.
0:57.8	Isn't that interesting?
0:59.5	And he wrote this piece a couple of years ago called Ask Ethan,
1:05.8	How can a nuclear bomb be hotter than the center of our sun?
1:11.6	Welcome to the show, Ethan, how are you doing? Hi there Scott I'm doing very well
1:15.8	thanks for having me on and thanks for being willing to take on such a an interesting and
1:20.8	unintuitive question. Yeah well I'm unintuitive question. Yeah, well, I'm very interested in it and in fact I'll go ahead and tell you I'm putting
1:28.0	out a book called Hotter Than the Sun, Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and it's a compilation of interviews that I've
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