Amusingly, the article sandwiches the resulting mass planetary extinction in between concerns of practicality and efficacy as reasons to reject this idea: > Th

Amusingly, the article sandwiches the resulting mass planetary extinction in between concerns of practicality and efficacy as reasons to reject this idea: > The proposed nuclear destruction of the Moon has been rejected by astronomers on several grounds: the nuclear arsenal of mankind would fail to do more than crack the Moon's crust; if successful, the heating of Earth's atmosphere by a hail of falling lunar debris would be destructive to all life; and an increase, not decrease, in the Earth's wobble without a stabilizing Moon, leading to an Earth axial tilt of 45 degrees and more drastic seasons would occur