> By the way, in the beginning of its development, we had so many PhDs working on the MOP program, doing modeling and simulation that we were quietly, and in a secret way, the biggest users of supercomputer hours within the United States of America.
Cool stuff!
> “The pilots stated, quote, ‘this was the brightest explosion that I’ve ever seen. It literally looked like daylight,'” according to Caine.
If your bomb is supposed to detonate underground, that's probably not the sort of thing you'd want to see from the cockpit of a B-2.
You're right! But what they saw was probably secondary detonations from chemicals and fuel which will burn a lot brighter.