Nuclear Detonation in Space: A Promising Shield Against Catastrophic Asteroid Impacts
In an era where space rocks pose an unperturbed threat to Earth, a scientific breakthrough might just have provided humanity with a critical defense mechanism. Researchers, led by physicist Nathan Moore at Sandia National Laboratories in the United States, have experimented with a technique where detonating a nuclear device near an asteroid could divert its perilous path away from Earth. This pioneering research, published recently in Nature Physics, propounds the use of intense X-ray emissions …