Would nuking the sun do anything?

Absolutely nothing. Or more properly, if we could turn the entire earth into a nuke and manage to launch it to the sun, the blast would be so negligible that it’ll seem like nothing happened.

What would happen if you nuked Mars?

The explosion would cause dust and debris to get kicked up into the atmosphere. Mars’ high wind speed will keep it there for years, blocking out the Sun, just like the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. This causes the temperature on the surface to plummet!

What would happen if you launched a nuke into the sun?

If that’s where we detonate our nuke, the time the nuke’s energy reaches the sun, it will be spread out over a sphere of radius 5.3 × 10 9 m , with the result that the energy per unit area is now just 7 × 10 − 4 J m − 2 . That is to say, in 0.00000000001 seconds, that area of sun would have put out more energy.

What would happen if the other planets disappeared?

But even if it suddenly disappeared there would be very little impact on the movements of the other planets, which are mostly determined by the Sun’s gravity. There would be minor changes in the planets’ orbits about the Sun, but very little else.

What would happen if the Earth was hit by a nuclear explosion?

In a nuclear blast, there is also quite a bit of debris, which would burn up in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, and heavy ions would also be absorbed by the atmospheric molecules of the planet. These extra radioactive molecules are actually useful in certain ways (to this day!), but we’ll explain in the next section.

Why was there no nuclear explosion in space?

First of all, since there is no atmosphere in space, there was no iconic mushroom cloud, nor a blast wave (which is where most of the damage of a nuclear bomb comes from on Earth).

What happens when a nuclear weapon detonates in space?

Finally, regarding the long-term effects of a nuclear weapon detonating in space, that radioactive material falling into the atmosphere isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it dissipates and spreads around the entire planet.

Could a nuke in space destroy a Nation’s infrastructure?

This may have been an unintended consequence for the citizens of Hawaii, but it also showed scientists and researchers the true power that a nuke in space could have. It could effectively cripple a nation’s infrastructure, without physically destroying any of it!