if a wave 500 feet high was traveling across the atlantic would it be possible to stop it by blowing up a nuclear missle in the heart of this wave to like stop it or make it smaller or somthin. i dont know if that would make it better or worse it was just an idea.
2006-06-29 15:16:05 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
NO.
Not only would you set off another tsunami just from using a nuclear weapon, you would load all that water with fallout. Then, not only would you have a tsunami, you'd have a *radioactive* tsunami. I'd rather deal with a flood than a flood AND radiation poisoning, thanks all the same.
2006-06-29 15:32:35 · answer #1 · answered by nardhelain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely no.
The wavepower unleashed by a large tsunami is thousands of megatons.
The nuclear blast would create an unpredictable tsunami of its own.
In the same way one large hydrogen bomb would not stop a hurricane.
And the radioactive fallout would create another huge problem.
2006-06-29 22:25:21 · answer #2 · answered by Dan S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋