Can Nuclear Weapons Really Destroy the Earth?

No way, during the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union each had 6,000 nuclear warheads, and the scope of the nuclear bomb attack was not large, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both very small cities, and these more than 10,000 nuclear bombs may not necessarily cover a country, let alone the world.

You've thought it through. It's not uncommon to hear such a statement. There is no quantitative description of this.

My personal opinion is how many times the complete destruction covers the surface of the earth. Because it is common to hear such a thing as the radius of nuclear destruction. It may be that people with good deeds deduce from this.

It's too much energy to blow up the whole earth. I don't think humanity currently has such power in its hands.

So to be precise, it is the destruction of human civilization. Not to destroy the planet.

A large number of nuclear ** can not only destroy any corner of the world, and leave behind deadly nuclear radiation, and a large amount of dust will also form a global nuclear winter, once the nuclear winter is formed, it will artificially change the living environment of the earth for a long time, threatening the safety of a large number of organisms.

Therefore, a very large number of nuclear ** can destroy human civilization and most living things, destroy the ecological balance, and affect the earth's climate.

But apparently the structure of the planet will not be destroyed.

**At the time of this question, there is also a pure theoretical assumption that if all the nuclear warheads owned by mankind at the peak of the nuclear arms race detonate at the same time, in fact, this will seriously reduce the power of nuclear **, because the lethal effect of each nuclear warhead ** (mainly relying on shock waves to destroy rock and soil targets such as the earth) expands rapidly in a spherical shape, but at the same time, the shock waves generated by the warheads will collide with each other, thereby canceling out the power. This circumstance is taken into account when using nuclear warheads in large quantities in nuclear war plans and cannot be used too intensively.

However, the possibility of nuclear destruction of the earth is real, which is the result of the earliest research of a group of conscientious scientists in the 80s of the 20th century, mainly in the Club of Rome. They believe that in the event of a large-scale nuclear war (which was entirely possible during the Cold War), due to the use of thousands of nuclear warheads over a large area of the earth, the dust clouds generated will fill the sky above the earth, forming dense clouds that cannot be dispersed for a long time, so that the earth will not get enough sunlight, the natural cycle of the biosphere will be broken, and higher organisms led by humans will first face the danger of extinction. This theory is called "nuclear winter".

Of course, recent decades of research in the fields of the biosphere, atmospheric physics, ancient climate cataclysm, etc., are very skeptical of such results. But there is one point, does the earth have to be blown to pieces before it is destroyed? Does it have to be extinct for the human race to be called destruction?

The population and material civilization of the world's major countries have been basically destroyed, which is terrible enough, and the significance of imagining such a problem is not to get to the bottom of the matter physically, but to warn of the madness of mankind.

Nuclear** Beat the egg! If it is a purely conventional combat without considering other factors of actual international relations, with the existing equipment and personnel quality of China and Japan, it will basically be a tie for the following reasons: China and Japan are fighting in an all-out battle, and the Japanese navy and air force are relatively strong, and after defeating the Chinese navy, it is impossible to win a battle on Chinese soil with Japan's existing army strength; Assuming that it is absolutely impossible for the Chinese navy to successfully land on the Japanese mainland with its existing landing forces, I don't want to say much about the existing landing forces of the navy, and even one Taiwan force projection will become a bottleneck, let alone the Japanese mainland, which is thousands of miles away.

The two will wipe out the navy at most, and then draw! If the actual war also has to consider economic strength, war potential, people's will, strategic deployment, logistics support and many other factors, and these are precisely the key factors for the victory or defeat of an absolutely all-out war, so it is a bit ridiculous to talk about victory or defeat alone in putting aside these factors, I hope that the landlord will not talk about this kind of meaningless topic in the future, it is better to really care about national affairs, national defense security, and do more things like national defense knowledge popularization is more practical!

I'll put it this way for you, if an asteroid hitting the earth is equivalent to dropping a cannon, then an atomic bomb is equivalent to striking a match. The reason why the earth can exist for 4.6 billion years is because of the strong gravitational pull that is strong enough, and under the effect of gravity, don't forget that the atomic bomb also fell**, which at most brought some trauma to the surface. It's like if you throw an apple vertically in a car, will the apple fly out of the car?

If all the world's nuclear ** are launched, will it cause the destruction of the earth? People are thinking too much.

Yes, absolutely. Not at all.

Not once. The lethality of a nuclear bomb is calculated using the formula of effective killing distance = c * **equivalent (1 3).

c is the proportionality constant, (1 3) is the cube root) generally take the proportionality constant as . This is only the ability to kill buildings, and you can't change the surface shape at all.

The largest 50 million tons of Tsar hydrogen bomb in history has a killing radius of just over 30 kilometers, and the killing area is about 2,000 square kilometers. At present, there are more than 10,000 nuclear bombs in the world, and most of them have a yield of hundreds of thousands of tons, which cannot even completely wipe out the surface of the United States, let alone destroy the earth. It would take trillions of nuclear bombs to destroy the planet.

In recent years, many marketing accounts have brainlessly exaggerated the power of nuclear **, fabricated false rumors such as "nuclear ** destroyed the earth dozens of times" and "nuclear ** shook the continental plate", which blinded a large number of netizens.

Human beings don't need nuclear ** to destroy the earth, and now due to the overexploitation of resources, the earth's resources are increasingly depleted. At the same time, it is not easy to destroy the earth with nuclear weapons, mankind has conducted more than 2,000 nuclear tests since the first nuclear bomb exploded, including 45 times in China, including the former Soviet Union has tested a 50 million ton hydrogen bomb on Novaya Zemlya Island, but even this super hydrogen bomb has not blown up Novaya Zemlya, and it has little impact on the entire earth. According to this reasoning, the nuclear winter predicted by scientists is to explode another 2,000 nuclear bombs, and it may not come.

Not to mention destroying the planet. There are now more than 20,000 nuclear warheads in the world, and some people say that they will destroy the earth dozens of times, which is unrealistic. But if the United States and the Soviet Union reward each other with more than 10,000 nuclear bombs, then the two countries will really return to prehistoric times, but there is no guarantee that no one will be left behind.

However, the current ability of human beings can be made into nuclear bombs that destroy the earth's ecology, such as 100 billion tons, trillion tons or even larger hydrogen bombs, but making such a behemoth will consume a lot of human energy and wealth, which only exists at the theoretical level. It's really made, but because of its huge weight and volume, it can't be transported, so it can only be detonated on the spot.

No amount of nuclear ** can destroy the earth, only the species on the earth, but the species in the deep sea can still be preserved, and the earth will prosper again in tens of thousands of years. In addition, the binding force of the earth is very large, and it is difficult to break into countless small pieces.

The global nuclear ** plus one piece can't destroy the earth! It will only destroy people and mankind! Do you know how big the Earth is!