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kleinbl00  ·  3018 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Harold Edgerton's Rapatronic Pictures of Atomic Bombs

If I recall correctly those spikes are the tower guy wires igniting ahead of the combustion wave; conduction via metal being far faster than radiation and convection via air.