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Can A Metal Bowling Ball Survive Inside a Nuclear Explosion?

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Scott Manley explains the Cold War experiments in which steel and aluminium spheres, known as Lew Allen's Balls, were placed near nuclear detonations. The spheres survived. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

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Channel
Scott Manley
Length
11 min 17 sec
Year
2020
Open on YouTube

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