{"id":121348,"date":"2021-04-08T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/lawrence-livermore-researchers-testing-out-nuclear-blast-defense-against-earth-threatening-asteroids"},"modified":"2021-04-08T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T00:22:18","slug":"lawrence-livermore-researchers-testing-out-nuclear-blast-defense-against-earth-threatening-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/lawrence-livermore-researchers-testing-out-nuclear-blast-defense-against-earth-threatening-asteroids","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Livermore Researchers Testing Out Nuclear Blast Defense Against Earth-Threatening Asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lawrence-livermore-researchers-testing-out-nuclear-blast-defense-against-earth-threatening-asteroids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LIVERMORE (CBS SF) \u2014 It sounds like a scene from a Hollywood sci-fi thriller, but researchers from Lawrence Livermore National lab have joined with an Air Force team of technologists to test if a nuclear blast could be used to deflect an earth-threatening asteroid.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it be Bruce Willis and his crew of oil drillers taking on an asteroid as it approaches earth in \u2018Armageddon\u2019 or Tia Leoni and her father awaiting a massive tidal wave from an asteroid strike in \u2018Deep Impact,\u2019 Hollywood has been fascinated by the threat from space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIVERMORE (CBS SF) \u2014 It sounds like a scene from a Hollywood sci-fi thriller, but researchers from Lawrence Livermore National lab have joined with an Air Force team of technologists to test if a nuclear blast could be used to deflect an earth-threatening asteroid. Whether it be Bruce Willis and his crew of oil drillers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}