Radiation Should Be Able To Deflect Asteroids As Large As 4 Km Across

John Timmer, Ars Technica
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 10:37am

Enlarge / Sandia National Labs' Z machine in action. (credit: Randy Montoya) The old joke about the dinosaurs going extinct because they didn't have a space program may be overselling the need for one. It turns out you can probably divert some of the more threatening asteroids with nothing more than the products of a nuclear weapons program.

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