A Cool Bomb: How an Indian mathematician aims to limit nuclear blast impact

Dr Meera Chadha's groundbreaking research with dust particles could pave the way for reducing the impact of nuclear blasts

Former president Dr A P J Abdul Kalam was once asked: "Can science create a ‘Cool Bomb’ to defuse or deactivate the deadly atom bomb?" Years later, India now seems to be taking the first steps in that direction, with a new research indicating that dust particles could help minimise the damage caused by a nuclear blast.

Ever since the US dropped atom bombs on Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands to end the World War-II, physicists the world over have been exploring ways to reduce the impact of nuclear bombs. An Indian mathematician seems to have taken