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Feb 9, 2017 ... ... nuclear bomb are remarkably similar to the violent chemistry that formed our Moon ... nuclear detonation, that we were either going to see ... Dec 17, 2020 ... He covers a scenario where a thermonuclear device is detonated on the surface of the moon, and what the potential hazards could be for astronaut ... At that time we didn't know about hydrogen bombs. But his idea was very simple. If you threw a nuclear bomb out the back of a rocket ship, it exploded and gave ... The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, which ... If the explosive device detonated on the surface, and not in a lunar ... have conceivably placed I SO people on the Moon, and eventually sent crewed ... single bomb would explode or even rupture? Although. ASA feared a public ... Jun 2, 2023 ... At the end of the 1950s — a decade shy of Apollo 11's successful lunar landing — the US military had the radical idea of detonating a nuclear ... Jun 19, 2014 ... For example: if a nuclear warhead were detonated in Jupiter’s ... I wonder if the fusing hydrogen clouds would then cause the ... Nov 30, 2012 ... Depending on where the detonation happened, sending the moon careening away from Earth would take somewhere between 10 billion and 10 trillion megatons of TNT. 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 ... May 22, 2024 ... First of all, why would the Russians put a nuclear bomb on an orbiting satellite — with all the attention such a move would generate — when they ...