What are the potential unintended consequences of detonating a nuclear bomb on the Moon that we haven't considered? 371

Sep 22, 2017 ... ... nuclear weapon detonated in the atmosphere in decades. ... When Ri floated the possibility of testing a nuclear weapon over the Pacific, he ... Feb 28, 2023 ... ... the US detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon. Sputnik launch. By the ... This opened up a whole host of new problems if the Soviets were able to put ... 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 ... 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. Dec 17, 2020 ... For humanity, however, the bomb blast would be quite terrible. Pieces of the Moon would rain down on Earth and wipe out satellites and ... Jan 23, 2023 ... According to Live Science, the Soviets received the honors for detonating the largest nuclear blast in history in October 1961, the 50-megaton ... Jul 1, 2024 ... ... nuclear weapon that could be put into orbit and detonated to knock out satellites. If that happened, what would you and I experience, and ... Jun 7, 2013 ... The United States detonated the first thermonuclear weapon, or hydrogen bomb ... Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ... 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 ... Jan 26, 2023 ... ... nuclear bombs (all of the existing ones on Earth in fact) must be detonated on the moon's surface to help push Earth into an outer orbit.