Editing Rope trick effect (section)

{{short description|"Spikes" emanating from suspended nuclear explosions}}
[[Image:TeapotTurkClose.gif|thumb|Nuclear explosion milliseconds after detonation. From the [[Operation Teapot]] test series in [[Nevada Test Site|Nevada]], 1955, showing fireball and rope trick effects.]]
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'''''Rope trick''''' is the term given by American [[nuclear physicist]] [[John Malik]] to the curious lines and spikes which emanate from the fireball of [[Effects of nuclear explosions|nuclear explosions]] under certain conditions, just after detonation.<ref name="Rope trick 1">{{Cite web |title=OPERATION TUMBLER-SNAPPER - 1952 |url=https://www.radiochemistry.org/history/nuke_tests/tumbler_snapper/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060216060948/https://www.radiochemistry.org/history/nuke_tests/tumbler_snapper/ |archive-date=2006-02-16 |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=Radiochemistry Society}}</ref><ref name="Malik bio">{{Cite web |title=John S. Malik is Cited for EMP Work |url=https://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00819970.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211142411/http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00819970.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-11 |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=[[Los Alamos National Laboratory]]}}</ref>