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Finally. A Productive Use for Nuclear Weapons: Asteroid Defense


hile it has been a favorite disaster movie theme, nuking an incoming asteroid in the real world has been touted as a very bad idea. While a nuclear bomb could possibly obliterate a smaller asteroid, nuking a larger asteroid would only break it into pieces.

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