The One Bomb We All Believed

A vibrating theater seat, a Texas-sized asteroid, and one heroic nuke left a generation quietly convinced. Years later a gleeful physics professor detonated that certainty with a single exam question. This episode traces how we take up glowing Hollywood claims as personal knowledge—and how to keep the beauty while demanding the math. Word of the day: lambent — glowing with a soft, restless light that never quite settles