There is a hypothetical scenario where a russian (I think) said something about exploding a megaton bomb somewhere in the middle of the attlantic ocean would cause a huge wave that would basically destroy both a huge part of the US' East Coast and The entire Western europe. I forgot the name of this scenario. It was proposed during the cold war.
Help me find something
Levi Hall
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David Baker
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Justin Powell
Seen the video, older Russian guy, older quality video. The proposed place wasn't the middle of the atlantic ocean though I think, but rather off the coast of major cities.
Joshua Myers
Brooo I know what you're talking about. It was a talk show, and the dude saying it was a scientist from Russia. No idea how to find it..
Hunter Baker
Easton Lewis
Fug. Thanks for the bump.
> but rather off the coast of major cities.'
This might help. i can't believe I am not able to find anything about that. Maybe I will try a different search egnine.
Jaxon Gonzalez
Wold not work.
The energy evem by a megaton blast is many orders of magnitude smaller than for example the Samoa earthquake that cause the 2009 tsunami in Japan.
Ryan Price
um the wave doesn't have to travel hundreds of miles, just one or two. it'll still be plenty big at that point. that said just nuke the fucking city why bother with a damn wave!?
Wyatt Bennett
>500m tsunami
The volume of water displaced by 50MT blast (like the tsar bomb) is nowhere near enough to cause such a wave.
This is the nuclear fantasy equivalent of people doing backflips when hit by a bullet in action movies.
Jace Adams
That's not it. I mean, it is the same idea but I am looking for the term to research it more thoroughly.
Tyler Wilson
No, it would not.
If the detonation is just 2 miles of the coast of any US city, there would not be enough water depth (read volume) to create such a wave.
At 2 miles from shore most places have only a few 10 meters depth.
Look at the famed baker test!
There is no high wave, despite being detonated 55m under the surface.
Robert Flores
I refuse to believe that these hips are real.
David Russell
Marianas trench. But that would destroy the whole planet.
Josiah Smith
What?
Austin Young
I couldn't find what you're looking for. I did find the video of the your pic. youtu.be
Henry Fisher
>water displaced
That's not how Tsunami work, dumbo. The point is to trigger a seismic chain reaction along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Gabriel Jenkins
I remember the video, I looked into it and it wouldn't work. All you'd get is a huge column of slightly warmed water.
Julian Gomez
He probably got his info from this gay ass fake video. youtu.be
Joseph Butler
Can I trust you on that? How long did you research for?
Brayden Russell
>Cold war
>Talk show
That sounds like a factually inaccurate joke with the intent to monger fear should any Europeans or Americans find the broadcast.
Nathaniel Johnson
Are you retarded?
What you just shat on your keyboard is so wrong, not even the opposite would be right.
Isaac Gutierrez
Getting real sick of your seismic events caused by bombs shit. I bet you're one of those "OMG WHAT IF THEY NUKE YELLOWSTONE" people too.
There is not, nor will there ever be, a bomb so powerful that it could cause an earthquake, or indeed blast straight through six to ten miles of solid rock and release the Yellowstone magma chamber. The forces involved in dramatic geological events are so much larger than those involved in nuclear weapon detonation that it's like the difference between accidentally walking into something while you're not looking and crashing a Boeing 767 into the World Trade Center
Parker Adams
what-if.xkcd.com
turns out XKCD man did it
Adrian Perry
People actually belive that?
I mean people older than 14?
Juan Lee
>100 megaton nuke
>in a torpedo
riiight
Gabriel Adams
Let's use theoretical model where water has no viscosity, no energy is transferred to phase change and water can move only along parallel of latitude. On base of these assumption it is 100% possible to create tsunami.
Nathaniel Russell
Why would they waste a nuke by dropping it a couple of miles away from the coast? Dropping it dead center on the city would probably create more havoc than any wave it can create
Ayden Gray
It says so on a shitty image. Must be true.
Remember pic related?
Noah Edwards
Lol a Tsuniami has a small order of magnitude itude more energy than a 100 megaton bomb, this would irradiate a few fishing and cargo boats though
Al
Isaiah Gray
undetected delivery, subverting anti-ballistic memes, etc.
Anthony Foster
shot baker was a 23 kilo a bomb, an order of magnitude smaller than a h bomb.
I'm subscribed to atomcentral on YouTube and they have some water shot footage that made a decent wave at shore. the depth of detonation is important.
Ian Long
Just look at OPs pic! This Baker test during operation crossraods was literally a test for creating tsunamis.
Nothing came of it.
Robert Cruz
Yeah, this is about right.
Grayson Hill
You dont know much about geology m8.
Luke Thomas
Man, because they have done it incorrectly. First you need to nullify effect of viscosity, then you need to make sure that no water evaporates and all energy is changed into kinetic movement and also it is much better to direct water only into 2 directions, letting it flow in all direction is also lose of energy. Very inefficient.
Joshua Carter
aight thanks.
Joseph Baker
I watches those movies, too. All of them. Now what?
All Baker created was a small wave, indistinguishable from ocean surf when it reached the nearest island a mile or two from ground zero.
You simply cannot build a PRACTICAL bomb large enough to make weaponized tsunamis.
A submergable tsunami bomb would have to be the size of a crude oil tanker.
This is plainly unfeasible.
Now stop with these stupid comic book fantasies!
David Phillips
I am not sure if you are trying to be ironic.
Andrew Kelly
Nah, I am completely serious.
Christopher King
>implying nukes are real
Evan Cook
Oh, in that case I am very sorry.
Please stop with the drinking, Ludoslaw and call your mother! She worries.
Ryan Anderson
>Tfw no Hot Polish Milf Mom to Call
Kayden Robinson
you obviously didn't see the video I'm talking about, and you obviously don't comprehend the difference in scale between kiloton and megaton devices.
i never claimed a tsunami could be replicated but a dangerous storm surge absolutely could. but as i also said, it's a bad idea so just nuke the damn city.
Kayden Fisher
Idk, it would seem to me, it would be much more devastating if it were done in depth of 100-200 feet deep or less. People imagine these huge 400 foot tidal waves, but the fact remains, that a 400 foot wave would take a tremendous amount of water. You can't have a wave that takes more water than what the depth is. In order to do that, it would have to be in deep water, but the energy to do that just isn't possible as far as I know. It would just disperse for the most part.
Dominic Miller
Here's the picture of a guy talking about it
Nolan Gonzalez
>i never claimed a tsunami could be replicated
Then what are you doing in this thread?
Go an not-claim things elsewhere!
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Justin Perry
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Genau mein brudi. Thank you.
Aiden Scott
It's actually sakharov I think man, but I'm still having a difficult time finding what you're looking for.
Nicholas Harris
well stop pointing to crossroads baker like it's the end-all of aquatic weapons tests.
Jaxson Jenkins
I once read that the right amount of H-bombs going off simultaneously could possibly ignite the oceans. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Isaac Martin
The Canaries lie on a fault line. Tenerife has a giant crack running down the middle of one of it's mountains. Theoretically, a nuke detonated in that fault could cause half the island to slide into the sea. The resulting tsunami would sweep across the Atlantic and drown the entire eastern seaboard of the United States. But they would have several hours to evacuate and prepare.
This is the worst case tsunami I can think of for the U.S. short of a comet strike just off the coast (in which case tsunami's would be the least of your worries).
Samuel Baker
>The Canaries lie on a fault line
Oh, really?
And what fault line would that be?
Jaxon Smith
Are you being sarcastic? It's literally volcanic. On a chain of volcanic islands.
Here: Look for yourself.
google.co.uk
Leo Foster
What you describe is not a fault line.
The canaries are built up by hot spot volcanism and are not an island arc/chain like the Aleutians or Kurils.
Fault lines are generally NOT associated with volcanism.
Tenerife is just an unstable island about to collapse like for example the Hawaiian Islands.
This is high school level geography.
Colton James
>Kraut autist spergs over inaccurate description of his high school class
Refute any of it's effects I described, you nitpicking cunt.
No-one likes you. Not even your mother.
This board is for over 18's, btw.
Jose Jones
Better believe it, user
Ayden Martinez
youtube.com
>> If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb In The Marianas Trench
I hope someone will do it
Gabriel Myers
You mean detonating a nuclear bomb in Mariana trench?
Ryder Jones
Impossible. There still are Russian shows that talk about aliens and Antarctic Nazis and whatnot, you probably saw an episode of that.
Benjamin Hill
That still wouldn't do what OP says, it would cause global tectonic plate shifts (earthquakes) instead.
William Phillips
William Sanders
I sure do!