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Aug 17, 2019 ... ... detonating nuclear bombs over its poles. The explosions would ... NASA and General Atomics test nuclear fuel for future moon and Mars missions ... 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 ... 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 ... Nov 28, 2013 ... We also can't assume that the hypothetical observer's retina is separated from the center of the blast by the size of the bomb itself. Even if ... Mar 5, 2024 ... On July 9th, 1962, a 1.4 megaton nuclear bomb was detonated about 250 miles above Earth's surface. ... Why Don't We Shoot All Our Nuclear Waste ... Mar 10, 2017 ... the explosion of a nuclear bomb on the moon could provide the United States with valuable ... stood to gain significant prestige if it were the ... 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 ... Nov 10, 2015 ... ” A dirty bomb would not produce a nuclear explosion like those at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. ... If I found out that a dirty bomb had exploded on the ... Jul 6, 2020 ... “When we went into the town near the test site, the children wanted to touch my face, feel my skin, look into my round eyes,” Hawkins remembers. Dec 17, 2020 ... The explosion would also likely create a shotgun-like blast of moon debris, as lower gravity makes it easier for moon rocks and dust to easily ...