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Reference paper: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/201...
Factor of safety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_...
The weight of a butterfly: https://thebulletin.org/2015/02/the-w...
Nuclear war as a global catastrophic risk: https://regulatorystudies.columbian.g...
Inverse Compton scattering: http://venables.asu.edu/quant/proj/co...
The impossibility of atmospheric fire: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/201...
Bethe, Teller, Trinity, and the End of Earth: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
Radiative processes in plasmas: https://www.lehigh.edu/~eus204/teachi...
Bremsstrahlung main losses: http://www.ira.inaf.it/~ddallaca/P-Ra...