The Atomic Megaproject That Tried to Build With Bombs
A richly animated historical explainer turns an absurd engineering proposal into maps, scale comparisons, and a stepwise underground diagram.
By Kurzgesagt – In a NutshellRuns 13:06
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Why it works
The spoken contradiction starts at frame 0 while a distant ignition grows before the first cut at frame 167. The shot 7–9 flash and zoom tunnel resets the scale at 37.80–43.13 s, and the maps in shots 31–34 lead into the cutaway in shots 39–40, making place and mechanism visible.
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