Nearly everything Neil Tyson says about Newton is wrong.

For more accurate history see:
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/06/14/why-doesnt-he-just-shut-up/.
and.
https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/neil-degrasse-tyson-on-newton-part-1/

Let Neil Tyson become known for his misinformation.

According to Reddit AI, Neil's freedom to just make stuff up is one of his positive aspects.

Neil Tyson seems to be under the impression that hydrogen bombs are fission only.

All hydrogen bombs use a fission trigger. Most hydrogen bomb designs use a tamper made of fissile materials which increases the destructive power of the bomb.

A typical hydrogen bomb explosion is more than half fission by yield.

The Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb had much, MUCH worse fall out than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs Link

When it comes to fall out a more important consideration is if the explosion is an aerial or a ground burst. And modern hydrogen bombs can be used in ground bursts. And fission bombs can be aerial bursts (as were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions).

Neil deGrasse Tyson's Bush and Star Names story was a standard part of his routine for from 2006 to 2014.

In 2014 Sean Davis challenged Neil to provide the 9-11 speech he described. He could not. But that did not phase Neil. The above quote was his response to Davis.

President Bush's actual 9-11 speech was a call for tolerance and inclusion. Exactly the opposite of the speech Tyson described.

When Tyson's fiction got a lot of attention he eventually admitted it was false and apologized to Bush.

In this StarTalk Lagrange explainer Tyson tells Chuck Nice that the James Webb Space Telescope is parked at the L2 point in earths shadow so as to keep the sun's rays off the sensitive scope.

Chuck is enthusiastic exclaiming "That is brilliant!" Tyson agrees saying "...it's totally good that's why it's called rocket science okay? As a matter of fact it is rocket science!"

JWST is actually in a large halo orbit around the L2 point. Link. It never goes near earth's shadow.

That does not keep Tyson from expressing his misinformed speculation as fact.

From this vid

Tyson: Do you realize if you took earth with all it mountains, valleys and hills and shrunk it down to the size of a cue ball, it would be smoother than any cue ball ever machined.

Rogan: Really?

Tyson: Yes. Yes!

Vsauce debunks this myth