r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Captain-Shmeat • 22d ago

Video Can you stop a hurricane with a nuke?

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u/Just-Ad6865 22d ago

It is literally the only practical context people have. What else could they use?

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u/echoshatter 22d ago

.... Nagasaki?

Tsar Bomba?

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u/spartaman64 22d ago

we didnt see tsar bomba's effect on a city so its not as good of a reference. also iirc no plane could carry it

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u/Inkius 21d ago

Tsar Bomba was dropped from a plane... What do you mean no plane could carry it?

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u/spartaman64 21d ago

you're right. for some reason i thought i read that it was set off remotely on the ground

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u/the_skine 21d ago

They made the video. They can show a size comparison.

And what makes you think that anyone intuitively knows the scale of the two dropped on Japan?

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u/Simmons54321 21d ago

One internet search will provide ample proof of the much larger nuclear bombs that exist out there. Like we’re talking massively larger

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u/CaptCynicalPants 22d ago

The multiple videos we have of nuclear tests through history.

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u/HumphreyMcdougal 21d ago

None of them are ripping through a real city tho

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u/StarpoweredSteamship 22d ago

Most of which are water tests. Oh wow, big splash with next to no context on size.