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Nuclear 101: How Nuclear Bombs Work Part 1/2
Belfer Center · 4 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2018–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 6 other lecture videos tagged Military history & warfare, the mean is 5.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 4.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
80% of its 5 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2018–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 65 minutes 29 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2013-09-10.
- Channel / speaker
- Belfer Center
- Verified runtime
- 1h 5m 29s
- YouTube upload date
- 2013-09-10
- Hacker News mention years
- 2018–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other lecture videos in Military history & warfare. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear 101: How Nuclear Bombs Work Part 1/2Current video | 4 | 4 | 80% | — | 1h 5m 29s | 2013-09-10 |
| Tiedustelueverstin arvio Venäjästä | 3.12.2018lecture · fin_topsu | 14 | 8 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 60m 22s | 2022-03-01 |
| Secret History of Silicon Valleylecture · Computer History Museum | 6 | 6 | 30% | No recorded overlap | 62m 47s | 2008-12-04 |
| Richard Feynman Lecture -- "Los Alamos From Below"lecture · The Quagmire | 3 | 3 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 78m 1s | 2016-07-12 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “El Capitan: New supercomputer is the fastest”. Its short rationale: Surprisingly detailed public information on weapon design.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?”. Its short rationale: Entertaining lectures on nuclear weapons basics by Matthew Bunn.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Ask HN: What happens if a nuclear missile is air-destroyed before detonation?”. Its short rationale: Good explanation of how nuclear weapons work.