{"id":77005,"date":"2018-03-18T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T16:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/russian-scientists-are-devising-a-plan-to-nuke-asteroids"},"modified":"2018-03-18T09:42:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T16:42:44","slug":"russian-scientists-are-devising-a-plan-to-nuke-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/russian-scientists-are-devising-a-plan-to-nuke-asteroids","title":{"rendered":"Russian Scientists Are Devising a Plan to Nuke Asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russian-scientists-are-devising-a-plan-to-nuke-asteroids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may have thought, \u201cHey, if we\u2019re threatened by an incoming asteroid, we should just nuke it!\u201d You\u2019re not alone: a team of Russian scientists are working on a plot to do so, by detonating miniature asteroids in a lab.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, several groups of researchers are now toying with the idea of asteroid nuking for the sake of planetary defense. The Russian team has even calculated about how much firepower they\u2019d need to perform such a feat.<\/p>\n<p>According to the translated paper published in the <em>Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics<\/em>: \u201cGiven the scale factor and the results of laboratory experiments, the undeniable destruction of a chondritic asteroid 200 m in diameter by a nuclear explosion with an energy above 3 Mt was shown to be possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/russian-scientists-are-devising-a-plan-to-nuke-asteroid-1823795788\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/russian-scientists-are-devising-a-plan-t...1823795788<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have thought, \u201cHey, if we\u2019re threatened by an incoming asteroid, we should just nuke it!\u201d You\u2019re not alone: a team of Russian scientists are working on a plot to do so, by detonating miniature asteroids in a lab. In fact, several groups of researchers are now toying with the idea of asteroid nuking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77005","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=77005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}