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Nuclear weapons are the most terrifying invention of humanity. Could our genius to create such weapons also end them? Today we explore how neutrinos could be used to do just that, fizzling out nukes anywhere on Earth and with no defense.

Written & presented by Prof. David Kipping, edited by Jorge Casas. Special thanks to Sam Gregson (   / @badboyofscience  ) for fact checking.

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REFERENCES
► The IceCube Collaboration 2023, "Observation of highenergy neutrinos from the Galactic plane", Science, 380, 1338: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04427
► Sugawara et al. 2003, "Destruction of Nuclear Bombs Using UltraHigh Energy Neutrino Beam", arXiv:hepph/0305062: https://arxiv.org/abs/hepph/0305062
► King 1999, "Potential Hazards from Neutrino Radiation at Muon Colliders", Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference. 29 Mar 2 Apr 1999, New York, New York. 18th IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference, p.318320: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9908017
► Silagadze 2008, "SETI and muon collider", Acta Physica Polonica B, 39, 2943: https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0409

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MUSIC
0:00 Stephen Keech Fable
1:25 Brad Hill It’s Always Darkest Before The Dawn
3:54 Brad Hill World of Wonder
5:00 Chris Zabriskie Music From Neptune Flux 04
7:46 Brad Hill Arctic Warmth
10:36 Brad Hill Northern Boards
13:25 Joachim Heinrich Stjärna
14:58 Brad Hill Fragile

CHAPTERS
0:00 Neutrinos
3:39 Incogni
5:08 Neutrino Factories
9:11 Applications
14:19 My Take
16:17 Outro & Credits

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