Did he actually die? In the interval of microseconds he went from a living human to being part of an expanding ball of energy. Not even all the nuclei of his body would have survived.
I would expect he would have been turned into organic vapor, actually. And some boiling liquids that wold condense and rain down upon the Russian terrain a few days later…
The shell you say….
I was left wondering about Major T. J. Kong (Slim Pickens) fate when the bomb goes off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove#/media/File:Dr._Strangelove_-_Riding_the_Bomb.png
Did he actually die? In the interval of microseconds he went from a living human to being part of an expanding ball of energy. Not even all the nuclei of his body would have survived.
I would expect he would have been turned into organic vapor, actually. And some boiling liquids that wold condense and rain down upon the Russian terrain a few days later…