Gunpowder works - as I understand it, I was always a very poor student - by taking the energy latent in the substance and using a bit of fire to release that energy potential. That explosion - that was a nuclear weapon. Something that delves deeper, wrenches out all the energy latent in the very tiniest subcomponents of the fabric of creation to cause an explosion of impossible size. It destroys lives and then it poisons the land. A cruel weapon indeed.
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[ Byerly sighs, presses his lips together. ]
Gunpowder works - as I understand it, I was always a very poor student - by taking the energy latent in the substance and using a bit of fire to release that energy potential. That explosion - that was a nuclear weapon. Something that delves deeper, wrenches out all the energy latent in the very tiniest subcomponents of the fabric of creation to cause an explosion of impossible size. It destroys lives and then it poisons the land. A cruel weapon indeed.