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** And then there's the [http://www.cracked.com/article_16583_5-scientific-experiments-most-likely-end-world.html The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World], which featured the Large Hadron Collider mentioned above multiple times. All done for the sake of science, of course.
** Also "[http://www.cracked.com/article_16301_6-most-badass-stunts-ever-pulled-in-name-science.html 6 Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled In The Name Of Science]"
* There was a concern that the first A-Bomb tests would trigger nitrogen fusion and ignite the entire atmosphere, wiping out all life on Earth. Teller first brought it up. "In Serber's account, Oppenheimer mentioned it to Arthur Compton, who 'didn't have enough sense to shut up about it. It somehow got into a document that went to Washington' which led to the question being 'never laid to rest'." By the time the test was done, this outcome seemed vanishingly unlikely (nitrogen does not fuse easily). [https://web.archive.org/web/20140309190949/http://www.sciencemusings.com/2005/10/what-didnt-happen.html Further discussion here.]
** From ''The Science Of [[Discworld]]'':
{{quote|Besides, the big worry was that if the Allies didn't get nuclear fission working soon then the Germans would beat them to it. Given the chance between our blowing up the world and the enemy blowing up the world, it was obvious what to do.
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