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With limited knowledge (the What If link posted earlier), would a tsunami created by a nuke be more damaging than a direct nuke itself? You'd lose the explosive
by Cthulhu_ 1y ago
With limited knowledge (the What If link posted earlier), would a tsunami created by a nuke be more damaging than a direct nuke itself? You'd lose the explosive and heat damage for the most part, and at least in my head the water would contain and dampen a lot of the explosion (although on the other hand water isn't nearly as compressible as air)
- mandevil 1y agoThe scale of energy released is the problem. Tohoku earthquake (which caused the Fukushima tsunami) released ~600 million Little Boy's worth of energy. Yeah, modern bombs are bigger- you'd only need a few hundred thousand Tsar Bombas to get that much energy- but still we're talking an absolutely gargantuan amount of energy. This is why no one looked at the idea until Putin needed something to threaten America with after GWB did a really stupid thing and pulled out of the ABM Treaty. And I don't believe that the official Russian sources claim it can make a tsunami, I think that's mostly propaganda.