How Many Nukes Would It Take to Blow Up the Entire Planet?

Alayo Jeremiah

15/06/18 12:49pm

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Dropping one nuclear bomb is terrible enough—cities leveled, populations vaporized. Horrible enough on its own—but what if you dropped 183.000? Goodbye, USA. So what about obliterating the moon?We've got it.

These wonderfully graphic calculations are courtesy of graphic designer Maximilian Bode, who tallied how many warheads of varying sizes it'd take to annihilate everything from San Francisco to the landmass of Earth itself. Both are bad. One is a little worse.