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Originally Posted by Frostatine
Okay, if you put a few hundred nukes about a mile down at certain key points in fault lines, yes I'm pretty sure you could either shatter the planet or damage it to the point that living on it would be pretty pointless. But regardless of that I don't really consider myself an expert on the effects of nuclear weapons when used on a mass scale, nor do I pretend to know exactly how many nukes there are in existence.
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There are not nearly enough nukes to even make a dent. Nuclear weapons can destroy the world in the sense that we'd all be dead, but you have to consider that the K-T boundary (in theory) was caused by an asteroid of about 100 teratons in energy. That's over 2 million of the biggest nukes ever made in a single bomb. And the Earth is still here. It's a tough old bird.
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Besides, why use nukes? We can just attach rockets to the moon to put it in the path of the meteor. Which would be significantly more badass.
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True, but I like having predictable lunar effects. I'll settle for a rocket on the asteroid itself.
EDIT: The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated was the Tsar Bomba, and it had a 50 MT yield. It's fireball was 8km in diameter, and it's seismic activity was observable on it's third revolution of the Earth. Which, while impressive for a man-made device, is still far short of world-killer status.