Can a Nuclear Bomb in Water Create a Deadly Tsunami

Can a nuclear bomb in water create a deadly tsunami?

Well...Not one nuke, anyway. People underestimate the truly astronomical power of natural disasters like Tsunamis and Hurricanes, dwarfing that of a single nuclear weapon.

However, researchers did conclude that a line of about 2,000,000 kg of nuclear explosives, detonated around five miles off the coast, may cause a destructive wave to brew.

For some real-world context, Fat Man, the nuclear weapon that devastated Nagasaki during World War Two, had a nuclear payload weight of 6.2 kg of Plutonium-239. It’d likely take 322,581 of these weapons to make something even close to an actual destructive tsunami.

However, the radioactive implications of detonating this absurd number of bombs underwater would likely have negative effects for generations to come.

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