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Why can't nuclear reactions burn the atmosphere
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[QUOTE="Trollfaz, post: 6631769, member: 616324"] When the US first developed nuclear weapons against the Nazis and Japan, their primary concern was whether the nuclear reactions can trigger the atmospheric nitrogen to fuse and burn the whole atmosphere. However this claim was instantly debunked by physicists. Their reasoning is that in order to fuse nitrogen, one needs extreme temperature (100MK) and extreme pressure such as in the center of massive stars( >3SM). The extreme conditions needs to be upheld constantly and is achieved when the intense mass of the star crushes in on it's center. But for Earth's case, even if we do manage to fuse a few nitrogen atoms, the heat released will immediately radiate away while the pressure will swiftly disperse and prevent further extensive chain reaction. Is that the explanation? [/QUOTE]
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