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Nurtle on Instagram: "In 2013, IBM scientists released A Boy and His Atom, a stop-motion film recognized by Guinness World Records as the smallest movie ever made. The team used a scanning tunneling microscope, operating at -268°C, to move individual carbon monoxide molecules into place. Each frame contained about 65 atoms, and when magnified more than 100 million times, they formed simple animations of a boy playing with his atom. It took thousands of precisely controlled movements to complete

Part 44: The Atomic Bomb's Impact on History

archive on Instagram: "On May 16, 1958, the United States conducted an underwater nuclear test called Wahoo. The device had a yield of 9 kilotons — similar to the Hiroshima bomb — but this time, the detonation occurred beneath the ocean’s surface. Within a second, a dome of water rose over 840 feet into the air. By seven seconds, it had widened to nearly 3,800 feet, sending violent plumes in every direction. By the 12th second, the vertical column began to collapse, while massive water surges co