2007-08-04 21:14:54 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Nukes can only "dig" a few tens of meters. Below that (hundreds of meters) they create an earthquake-like shock wave, but that can be defended against by literally putting the bunker on springs. That's what NORAD defense command did. The military wanted to make bunker busters that penetrate the ground deeply before detonating to increase the digging range, but congress didn't fund it.
2007-08-05 06:34:56 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but the most powerful bomb ever created was the Tsar bomb during the cold war. And that left balst damage a thousand kilometers away from the blast test site. I think that a mountain would stand no chance. It's a three stage H bomb working on Fission.
2007-08-04 21:19:44 · answer #2 · answered by Richard S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea give them time to develop the technology to penetrate a mountain fully but they could penetrate it a little bit
2016-01-09 07:59:19 · answer #3 · answered by john 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right now, no it couldn't. We don't have the technology to drop a bomb that could penetrate thousands of feet of granite in order to put a nuclear weapon in a position where it could penetrate deep enough to do the job.
Give it a few years, though............
2007-08-04 21:24:37 · answer #4 · answered by Foxfire 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think... it can but not full through to the other end of the mountain maybe
2007-08-04 21:30:51 · answer #5 · answered by year 12 student 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋