...I'm uncertain about Quantum Physics...

Except that, even though at my company the Active Directory .adm rules disable USB storage devices, there's still a lag time between plugging it in and having it disabled. I was able to pull a few files off a USB flash drive in that time, easy as pie.

Keep in mind, the LHC was used to make heavy ions recently, lead I believe, so it may be a bit of a buzzword to some authors.
I think the sentence structure is pretty solidly in my favor, too:
"Generate" starts a list of items, however the way the list is presented is as such: "Light and heat" is 'one' item, followed by "X-rays and gamma rays" as a second item, then "subatomic particles" as the third item
So, either it's a very poorly constructed list(which to be honest, it is a bit ambiguous), or my interpretation was correct.

Nukes also generate heat and light, plus vast amounts of X-rays and gamma rays – high-energy forms of light – as well as subatomic particles like electrons and heavy ions.
subatomic ... heavy ions.
Can we research big words before throwing them out to sound intellectual, please? kthx.

I distinctly remember seeing a c:\ prompt(DOS, usually), a Mac OS(trash can, quicktime, etc), Lex said it was Unix, and I remember them mentioning that they were 'supercomputers' which suggests CrayOS. In other words, the most retarded system ever created.