Fireworks sound good but nuclear weapons are not. Don't you think that the idea of dropping a nuclear bomb on the moon sounds like crazy? But what if it really happens, will this explosion be visible even from such a distance, and will the debris from it have any effect on us, and will we be able to survive?
In 1957, the Soviet Satellite Sputnik successfully orbited the earth, moving Russia ahead in the space race. Fearing to be left behind, the US government decided to drop a nuclear bomb on the moon. America believed that the explosion visible from the earth on the moon would prove America's power worldwide and boost the morale of the American people. But do you aware the most powerful nuclear bomb made till date has 50 megatons of TNT, which means equivalent to 3800 Hiroshima bombs.
Now you must be thinking that if we drop a nuclear bomb on the moon, what will be its effect on humans? In short, the answer is, it will have no effect. For this, you'll need a bigger bomb than that, about as big as 100 trillion megatons of TNT. Such an explosion can take the moon out of Earth's orbit, due to which we will be exposed to meteors and also, there will be an effect on earth's tides and our weather will also be having a terrible effect.
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So although the nuclear bomb will not push the moon out of its trajectory, but will our experiment have any major impact on its radiation levels? Well, there would have been a major problem, as the US had several reasons, along with world dissent, to cancel the 1958 plan of detonating a nuclear bomb on the Moon, one of which was nuclear debris that would have ruined the military's plan to build a colony on the Moon by 1967. But our moon is not like the earth, as there is no ozone layer to protect it, which means it is always exposed to the cosmic rays and the blaze of the sun.
Because of this, the levels of space radiation on the moon's surface remain high and they are so high that the radioactive debris of a nuclear explosion will not have any significant effect on it. The exciting thing is that NASA is still looking for a solution to the moon's radioactive problem because they hope that in the future, they will be able to build a base on the moon and keep the staff there.
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If we drop a nuclear bomb on the moon, then the maximum damage can be done to the moon that another crater will form on its surface, which is strange. Because the Moon gets its craters from blocking the meteorites coming towards the Earth. So maybe we should stop trying to attack it and thank it for the defense, seasons, and tides that it gives to earth.
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