Could the explosion be used to study the Moon's internal structure through seismic waves in more detail than natural events? 109

The United States military allegedly once wanted to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon without a full understanding of its consequences. They want to ensure with high confidence that the weapons will detonate when their use is ordered, but that they will not do so by accident or without ... Oct 8, 2024 ... Nuclear-armed ballistic missiles can't loiter in that way, but they're just as effective at destroying satellites if detonated while in space. Jul 6, 2024 ... So what would a nuclear explosion in space look like — and what would the effect be? To understand, we first need a clearer picture of the ... Apr 21, 2025 ... ... What if we. 5651w ago. physicsnuke. PhysicsNuke. What if we detonated a nuclear bomb on the moon #fyp #foryou #physics #nuclear #nuke # ... The narrator says that it exploded with the force of "10,000 nuclear weapons". Good: 10,000? Where did that number come from? If we assume the asteroid that ... Oct 29, 2021 ... ... we have a bomb as powerful as 100 million tons of TNT. And we have it, too. But we are not going to explode it, because, even if exploded in ... May 25, 2019 ... If the Saturn V exploded, it could do so with the force of a small atomic bomb, the equivalent of half a kiloton, or about 1/26th the size of ... Aug 4, 2020 ... When the U.S. military first detonated an atomic bomb in the desert ... Ban Ki-moon meets Sumiteru Taniguchi, a survivor of the atomic bomb ... Mar 12, 2019 ... The detonation would not be heard on Earth, therefore we would wait infinitely for it. This is because the sound is a mechanical wave, ...