At 2:05 one of the destroyers mentioned was the Maddox which if you are old enough or up on your Vietnam history was the ship involved on August 2, 1964 that triggered the Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution and full scale involvement of the USA in Vietnam.
Was aboard USS Razorback during that Asroc test and the shock wave was more than a little scary. Pushed us over on our port side like a giant hand. We weren't told of the strength of the secondary wave and that surprised us.
Blimey!, that sounds absolutely terrifying. I can't help thinking that all the ships/subs/aircraft seemed to be very close to this particular test detonation, I'm pretty much sure they wouldn't be allowed to do anything like this nowadays.
My dad was range communications and control officer on this test and later exec officer of the Norton Sound. This test is the only time that a deployable nuclear weapon was detonated after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
air force tested and detonated a phoenix air to air missile in Nevada....this was the same one that resided in the belly of the F102's that I saw routinely flying overhead when I was a kid outside playing...that,..coupled with the nuclear warheads on the Nike missiles all around the city meant I grew up surrounded by live nukes...it was a different time...a different age.....
They only tested the nuclear ASROC one time along with the Polaris missle, the ASROC program was never killed and the US Navy used the system for a number of years, the ships equipped with the system only carried the conventional warhead (torpedo) but the nuclear versions were available if needed and were stored at the Naval Weapons Depots.
Actually, the yield of this test ASROC was actually much higher than what as really needed. I believe that W44 warheads used on operational ASROC's only had a yield of around 2 KT, not the 10 KT of this test weapon.
Yes, with some, but not all. I have a problem with any religious person who would judge and treat another badly and justify that bad behavior with their religion of choice. I believe the world would be more peaceful without religion.
Religion is a bunch of bullshit and always has been and only recently have the masses started to become educated enough to realize it, my co worker goes on for hours about religion obviously justifying it to himself because subconsciously we all know it’s bullshit even when we are 5 it sounds suspicious, I just want to tell him how dumb he is
It is my understanding that this was the only other time we actually used a deployed weapon systems with a nuclear device, i.e. Polaris Missile. There was another system called ASROC that may have used a nuke device and was tested. ASROC was an anti-submarine weapons system. I don't know if was ever fully deployed by the Navy.
You, probably, off you-tube, now as is 3years, but yes, it was deployed on 688, class and 566 class, fast attack, subs ea, carried, at least, 2, nuke asroc's , as I was always stationed, in fire party, during on-loads & off loads.
...common usage...but not with nukes...another interesting flic was "Countdown to Looking Glass"...where we and the russians were shooting these things at each other...
Maybe, but he was also a decorated veteran of WW2 who took part in the landings at Oran and Normandy, and commanded the first American unit to cross the Rhine in 1945.
Congrats. Your uncle is one of the asshats who contributed to your demise. lol You're proud of that? Because of him, you own children (god forbid) - have no future. Yeah, that is really something to be proud of.
@@tpowell453 no he's proud his Uncle was a Navy Vice Admiral who ran a very important part of US strategic defense to safeguard unappreciative asshats like you. See what people like you fail miserably too realize is, if we had taken the moral high ground, you'd be speaking either Japanese, German or Russian right now, because they would have still development the weapons.Because guess what, 1 single special ops mission in Norway to sink a barge carrying heavy water is all the stopped Hitler from finishing the bomb. The barge was on it's way to deliver the heavy water for the final completion of the bomb, when 4 guys managed to sink it. Us having them too is the only thing that keeps them from being used. And before you say it, you have to test the shit or else you can't fine tune it or prove to the other guy it works! You're one of those people that protest the military, even though it's the military that's defending your right to protest ..🙄
Do not let these tree huggers discourage you from ever being proud of your Uncle! You should be & I thank you for sharing that with us & I thank your Uncle for his dedication & service.
Very spectacular effects; the ASROC in particular was very aesthetically pleasing. These weapons, although deadly, produced some unbelievably amazing sights, a "deadly beauty" indeed.
basically a super, duper depth charge delivered by rocket- assisted torpedo...they were common on destroyers.. minus the nukes... which were removed from all the small ships after the CMC....
My father was the communications officer on this mission. He was executive officer on the Norton Sound and was responsible for relaying the countdown from the USS Ethan Allen to the rest of the fleet. This is a big deal. This is the first and only time since Hiroshima and Nagsaki that a deployable nuclear weapon was tested or deployed. All other atomic tests were of warheads not deployable weapons.
One aspect of the test not shown in this film were the 3 or 4 submarine simulators placed at various depths and distances from the blast. The duplicated then current submarine construction and were intended to represent potential damage to a sub, and ways to improve survivability. Hung from rafts, they contained cameras and instruments. There is a brief segment of film from inside one of these in the movie Trinity And Beyond.
I totally agree with your comment. Especially the last sentence "There's a lot of shit talked by people who nothing about science." A lot of religious people would fit into that group. They feel more comfortable believing in their invisible man in the sky.
So what you are saying is that this is the last time that the U.S. military attached a live nuclear warhead to a delivery vehicle and test fired the delivery vehicle and detonated the warhead. All tests afterward were just the warhead - no delivery vehicle was used. Do I have that correct? That IS interesting!
true, it wasnt until like the mid 50s when they started to really think about how dangerous the radiation actually was. There is a video on here where the soldiers are very close to a bomb in trenches, and after it detonates they walk straight into the blast area.
lol a pob, the angel fish missile system is for mines, not subs and the deep ocean trenchs where ssbns are at cant be found from the air !! good luck with that one
Imagine: The first time an atomic device was detonated, some scientists thought that this could set our atmosphere on fire. Basically, the end of life on earth.
Imagine...the word starting a comment with no point. No one thought the atmosphere would be set on fire. The fusion of nitrogen molecules was a concern in 1942 brought up by Edward Teller. It took Hans Bethe a couple of hours of calculation to prove that could not happen. When the first bomb was tested, Enrico Fermi went around asking if anyone wanted to be that would happen as a joke to relieve the tension. And you thought it was a serious concern...imagine THAT...
the baker test at bikini saw some of the ships surrounding the detonation sunk by the large wave it produced...but even those that survived were heavily irradiated
Well, yeah, ideas don't always pan out. The Air Force wanted a nuclear plane which could stay aloft for months; when ICBMs become good enough, the airplane was forgotten. Then there was a Soviet scare about such a plane there which rekindled interest briefly.
none of our bombers can make it to their targets and (hopefully) return without at least one tanker rendezvous...making the tanker bases targets, as well...unfortunately I live right next to one......
rip a hole in space time? this isnt star trek. its just nuclear chain reaction. not much different to what hundreds of trillions of stars are doing right this minute.
@lovinit19791 well it would stop the spill, I don't think that is the next option but the last. At that point we would need to weigh which option is worse, and i believe the Nuclear option has less worse consequences.
@texNoz All that science DID go to something more productive. How do you think that you got microwave ovens, computers, mobile phones, electronic ignition in your car, optical fiber, etc, etc, etc. The most important thing that all military projects do is to pay for and develop new technologies that are then transfered to private industry for practical more purposes.
They were much more interested in the microwave spectrum that would vaporize humans, not the visible light range we use to witness the results. The men who worked to build the nuclear bombs spent billions of dollars, and it took an infrastructure of copper wire and hydroelectric power to create it. The Manhattan project used a third of all the electricity produced in the early 1040,s. But still, it was a gamble, so an even more expensive conventional weapon of mass destruction was concurrently paid for. The Boeing B-29. With a final conventional goal of carpet bombing Japan required the Marines to brave many battles, to put an airfield within tactical range of Tokyo. The point? If the generals had simply believed that the atomic bomb was a certainty, I believe the military should have requested only ten extremely long range airplanes, that could deliver the two nuclear bombs that ended the war. That would have been about four billion u.s. dollars in 1944, when a brand new Ford truck cost less than $500 dollars.
He never said that, and they also don't transmit electricity on the grid at 240V. Even then, 240 is a domestic voltage and most heavy industrial equipment - and I doubt most atomic weapons equipment - utilizes such a low voltage.
The nuclear bombs did not end the war. Japan had been trying to negotiate terms of surrender, the US rejected those terms. Japan surrendered when they learned that the Soviets had invaded Manchuria.
without comments like yours - reading the you tube comments would be a waste LMAO - i have more fun reading stuff like this then watching the stupid shows on TV
3:25 "Impossible" my ass. We're still paying for it and Fukashima is being hushed up like you can't imagine. The Genie will never be put back in the bottle and yet we as a species continue to chose to live on that river in Egypt. Denial.
@dougmahone it amazes me how ignorant people are. they really have no clue how the world today has benefited from all the defense spending of the last 70 yrs. all of the electronic devices today owe its existence to defense spending. its what made integrated circuits possible. i can't imagine someone walking around with a vacuum tube ipod. i know....what is a vacuum tube?? no its not an attachment to your vacuum cleaner! geezzzzzzzzzzz
I dunno I always hear how big and dangerous these things are but the only one I’ve seen that actually looks impressive is the tsar, all the others seem smaller than I always expected
FT: There have always been birth defects and cancer, unrelated to nukes. Dinosaurs got them. The overall increase in incidence is actually fairly small.
Yeah you live in a world of denial, you really believe that fairytale bullshit? With 100% no legitimate evidence that it actually exists, you just have to have faith and worship something that doesn’t even have the balls to actually show him yet demands you worship him and give 10% of your money... I mean come on it’s so obviously a joke
I suppose you think the Russians never did any damage to the environment in the arms race? Because think again. They've caused far more devastation and disease than the US did. And besides, both sides were trying to defend themselves against the threat of extinction. Let's also not forget that France is the one still testing nuclear weapons today, while the US hasn't for decades. Might want to actually use your brain when you post next time. :)
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha dude .... a nukes blast is about 8 miles right ? now there are supernova explosions of stars that were possibly even the size of our solar system . They cause a rip in space time . A little nuke explosion will at best leave a crater on the earth and poison the ground for years to come .
At 2:05 one of the destroyers mentioned was the Maddox which if you are old enough or up on your Vietnam history was the ship involved on August 2, 1964 that triggered the Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution and full scale involvement of the USA in Vietnam.
Maddox and the Turner Joy...two separate attacks...one real ..one imagined....
Was aboard USS Razorback during that Asroc test and the shock wave was more than a little scary. Pushed us over on our port side like a giant hand. We weren't told of the strength of the secondary wave and that surprised us.
Blimey!, that sounds absolutely terrifying. I can't help thinking that all the ships/subs/aircraft seemed to be very close to this particular test detonation, I'm pretty much sure they wouldn't be allowed to do anything like this nowadays.
Wow, a legit nuclear veteran. Thanks for your service. Hopefully you're still around to answer this, but can you describe the sounds?
"Us" ?
My dad was range communications and control officer on this test and later exec officer of the Norton Sound. This test is the only time that a deployable nuclear weapon was detonated after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Snorting Norton was a regular fixture at Port Hueneme. I worked on and around her when I was working on the Aegis VLM program
air force tested and detonated a phoenix air to air missile in Nevada....this was the same one that resided in the belly of the F102's that I saw routinely flying overhead when I was a kid outside playing...that,..coupled with the nuclear warheads on the Nike missiles all around the city meant I grew up surrounded by live nukes...it was a different time...a different age.....
And we are still polluting the oceans today.
This is what Humans do...
the narrator, talking through a fan
Which makes this fan-tastic
Jess talking Stick. Lol
nuclear weapons are actually green weapons; lots less fuel burned up to get something destroyed, time saver too.
Ignoramus.
Moron.
Is surly troll
They only tested the nuclear ASROC one time along with the Polaris missle, the ASROC program was never killed and the US Navy used the system for a number of years, the ships equipped with the system only carried the conventional warhead (torpedo) but the nuclear versions were available if needed and were stored at the Naval Weapons Depots.
Actually, the yield of this test ASROC was actually much higher than what as really needed. I believe that W44 warheads used on operational ASROC's only had a yield of around 2 KT, not the 10 KT of this test weapon.
Yes, with some, but not all. I have a problem with any religious person who would judge and treat another badly and justify that bad behavior with their religion of choice. I believe the world would be more peaceful without religion.
Religion is a bunch of bullshit and always has been and only recently have the masses started to become educated enough to realize it, my co worker goes on for hours about religion obviously justifying it to himself because subconsciously we all know it’s bullshit even when we are 5 it sounds suspicious, I just want to tell him how dumb he is
It is my understanding that this was the only other time we actually used a deployed weapon systems with a nuclear device, i.e. Polaris Missile. There was another system called ASROC that may have used a nuke device and was tested. ASROC was an anti-submarine weapons system. I don't know if was ever fully deployed by the Navy.
You, probably, off you-tube, now as is 3years, but yes, it was deployed on 688, class and 566 class, fast attack, subs ea, carried, at least, 2, nuke asroc's , as I was always stationed, in fire party, during on-loads & off loads.
...common usage...but not with nukes...another interesting flic was "Countdown to Looking Glass"...where we and the russians were shooting these things at each other...
Being a sampler pilot seems like it would be kind of crappy duty.
orange70383 any job flying beats ground duty.
I kinda think being in the subs at the target point might be more worrisome.
Maybe, but he was also a decorated veteran of WW2 who took part in the landings at Oran and Normandy, and commanded the first American unit to cross the Rhine in 1945.
"if they fire one I'm going to fire one"
"Roger, Fire 1!"
Tom E, name of the movie? :) .
Cool! found this by accident. Time 3:59, the guy with red hair; that's my Uncle Rosie (VADM Levering Smith). He ran SP for 12 years I think.
Congrats. Your uncle is one of the asshats who contributed to your demise. lol You're proud of that? Because of him, you own children (god forbid) - have no future. Yeah, that is really something to be proud of.
@@tpowell453 no he's proud his Uncle was a Navy Vice Admiral who ran a very important part of US strategic defense to safeguard unappreciative asshats like you. See what people like you fail miserably too realize is, if we had taken the moral high ground, you'd be speaking either Japanese, German or Russian right now, because they would have still development the weapons.Because guess what, 1 single special ops mission in Norway to sink a barge carrying heavy water is all the stopped Hitler from finishing the bomb. The barge was on it's way to deliver the heavy water for the final completion of the bomb, when 4 guys managed to sink it. Us having them too is the only thing that keeps them from being used. And before you say it, you have to test the shit or else you can't fine tune it or prove to the other guy it works! You're one of those people that protest the military, even though it's the military that's defending your right to protest ..🙄
Do not let these tree huggers discourage you from ever being proud of your Uncle! You should be & I thank you for sharing that with us & I thank your Uncle for his dedication & service.
If they were real men, they'd surf that burst surge in the ASROC test. Thanks for posting! Amazing film.
This is the Anti-HD
This is anti-SD
Very spectacular effects; the ASROC in particular was very aesthetically pleasing. These weapons, although deadly, produced some unbelievably amazing sights, a "deadly beauty" indeed.
basically a super, duper depth charge delivered by rocket- assisted torpedo...they were common on destroyers.. minus the nukes... which were removed from all the small ships after the CMC....
My father was the communications officer on this mission. He was executive officer on the Norton Sound and was responsible for relaying the countdown from the USS Ethan Allen to the rest of the fleet. This is a big deal. This is the first and only time since Hiroshima and Nagsaki that a deployable nuclear weapon was tested or deployed. All other atomic tests were of warheads not deployable weapons.
not true...the army tested...and even deployed... an atomic cannon
One aspect of the test not shown in this film were the 3 or 4 submarine simulators placed at various depths and distances from the blast. The duplicated then current submarine construction and were intended to represent potential damage to a sub, and ways to improve survivability. Hung from rafts, they contained cameras and instruments. There is a brief segment of film from inside one of these in the movie Trinity And Beyond.
true...some survived...some didn't....
skip to 16:13 if you just want to see the explosion
I totally agree with your comment. Especially the last sentence "There's a lot of shit talked by people who nothing about science." A lot of religious people would fit into that group. They feel more comfortable believing in their invisible man in the sky.
Hey Dad,I can now see how you worked back then. Too bad I have to go to TH-cam to find out about your stuff.
1:01 so *this* is where Blizzard got the idea to put a little man inside of the missile turrets!
This is AWESOME! Now I finally get it, hahaha
So what you are saying is that this is the last time that the U.S. military attached a live nuclear warhead to a delivery vehicle and test fired the delivery vehicle and detonated the warhead. All tests afterward were just the warhead - no delivery vehicle was used. Do I have that correct? That IS interesting!
ASROC used a dialable yield warhead...up or down...to maximize the effects and control fallout depending on the ocean depth....
Get your PIP BOY READY!!
16:14
All that most maddens and torments
i have always wondered what the world would be like if weapons one day suddenly stopped working.
knives?...clubs?...we'd still be killing each other....
0:42 epic propellerhead
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry for late reply HAHAHAHAHAHA 11 years ago you spotted something, today I saw it.
Did anybody noticed the ship Maddox. Is it the same that help usher in the Vietnam War(1964)
true, it wasnt until like the mid 50s when they started to really think about how dangerous the radiation actually was. There is a video on here where the soldiers are very close to a bomb in trenches, and after it detonates they walk straight into the blast area.
these explosions used to be televised live...I can remember watching one as they cut away from the "today" show just before I headed off to school....
lol a pob, the angel fish missile system is for mines, not subs and the deep ocean trenchs where ssbns are at cant be found from the air !! good luck with that one
The sound for this video is mono (only one channel on a Stereo playback)? Also there is a lot of flutter in the voice.
you need to take the sound and split it to stereo so headphone users can listen without going nuts
Fascinating.
No fish were hurt in the making of this film!
The intro music at the beginning reminds me of some old fashion Disney cartoon lol
Asroc was epic
16:59 Bendix bell!
Imagine: The first time an atomic device was detonated, some scientists thought that this could set our atmosphere on fire. Basically, the end of life on earth.
Imagine...the word starting a comment with no point. No one thought the atmosphere would be set on fire. The fusion of nitrogen molecules was a concern in 1942 brought up by Edward Teller. It took Hans Bethe a couple of hours of calculation to prove that could not happen. When the first bomb was tested, Enrico Fermi went around asking if anyone wanted to be that would happen as a joke to relieve the tension. And you thought it was a serious concern...imagine THAT...
Teenagers playing with explosives, young and stupid, at least we have passed that and haven't killed ourselves.
ROFL, nice propeller beanie at 0:42
we dropped the big one at a constant rate
@gavinjny Back in the day they were just glad to have technicolor
Possibly it could drip a hole into space/time? :-)
Ooops. No, that's my coffee percolator.
Megadeth warned us about this...
Or our sun is a conductor in a plasma field. Oh, did I speculate out of turn too?
Not. If you were within 10 miles of the blast, you would be burned and then splashed by a surface wave, but it wouldn't act like a tsunami.
the baker test at bikini saw some of the ships surrounding the detonation sunk by the large wave it produced...but even those that survived were heavily irradiated
I knew Maddox sounded sounded familiar.
alright wise guys who auto tuned this video
The narrator: everyone used to have his voice, and now no one... what happened?
I saw a thing on that, it has to do with equipment at the time that’s why all their voices sound the same
we may be clever enought to design it , but i dont think we are clever enough not to use it --- Steven Hawkings
I'am wearing , my "NAVY" -"T" shirt watching this! So PROUD!
Well, yeah, ideas don't always pan out. The Air Force wanted a nuclear plane which could stay aloft for months; when ICBMs become good enough, the airplane was forgotten. Then there was a Soviet scare about such a plane there which rekindled interest briefly.
none of our bombers can make it to their targets and (hopefully) return without at least one tanker rendezvous...making the tanker bases targets, as well...unfortunately I live right next to one......
I don't even think this happened because if you look carefully, there is no orb around the earth. oh soz, thats the moon thingy...
My god! No way!?!? Someone get this memo to Einstein!!!
Wow... and flutter
Err the sun only generates about 320 watts per cubic meter, much cooler than a similar amount off any explosive.
Yeah, perhaps just over 30% (which also happens to be a US average).
Why is the narrator drowning? :o
Yes, but it has a lot of cubic meters.
There was no wave after that massive explosion?
First nuclear explosion was at second 0 in the history of space time.
*troll face*
@Forrestman69 You'd have a radioactive ocean shore inhabitable to most life at sea and land. But you'd have a really big cloud to stop global warming.
rip a hole in space time? this isnt star trek. its just nuclear chain reaction. not much different to what hundreds of trillions of stars are doing right this minute.
Let's Nuke the Site from Orbit."
@lovinit19791 well it would stop the spill, I don't think that is the next option but the last. At that point we would need to weigh which option is worse, and i believe the Nuclear option has less worse consequences.
@texNoz All that science DID go to something more productive. How do you think that you got microwave ovens, computers, mobile phones, electronic ignition in your car, optical fiber, etc, etc, etc. The most important thing that all military projects do is to pay for and develop new technologies that are then transfered to private industry for practical more purposes.
what ever. At 5 miles your just nuking yourself.
and...I'll have the fish and chips.
@rangeclerk 'Just to be sure...'
bet there was a lot of sushi eaten afterwards.
Dont u think the great minds who did it wouldnt think of that, i mean with all those mathematic equations?
@cobrachoppergirl It would have done as intended, end the war.
Go Navy!
That voice though....
This video looks like it was made by the DHARMA initiative.
What's with the guy at 6:03?
Gerbil Dude
They were much more interested in the microwave spectrum that would vaporize humans, not the visible light range we use to witness the results. The men who worked to build the nuclear bombs spent billions of dollars, and it took an infrastructure of copper wire and hydroelectric power to create it. The Manhattan project used a third of all the electricity produced in the early 1040,s. But still, it was a gamble, so an even more expensive conventional weapon of mass destruction was concurrently paid for. The Boeing B-29. With a final conventional goal of carpet bombing Japan required the Marines to brave many battles, to put an airfield within tactical range of Tokyo. The point? If the generals had simply believed that the atomic bomb was a certainty, I believe the military should have requested only ten extremely long range airplanes, that could deliver the two nuclear bombs that ended the war. That would have been about four billion u.s. dollars in 1944, when a brand new Ford truck cost less than $500 dollars.
He never said that, and they also don't transmit electricity on the grid at 240V. Even then, 240 is a domestic voltage and most heavy industrial equipment - and I doubt most atomic weapons equipment - utilizes such a low voltage.
None of that is true.
The nuclear bombs did not end the war. Japan had been trying to negotiate terms of surrender, the US rejected those terms. Japan surrendered when they learned that the Soviets had invaded Manchuria.
Opinion Theory Uhhhhh...yeah. I guess it's too bad they couldn't predict the future.
Failsafe...
without comments like yours - reading the you tube comments would be a waste LMAO - i have more fun reading stuff like this then watching the stupid shows on TV
3:25 "Impossible" my ass. We're still paying for it and Fukashima is being hushed up like you can't imagine. The Genie will never be put back in the bottle and yet we as a species continue to chose to live on that river in Egypt. Denial.
Yeah, perhaps about a third - about par for the human race as a whole.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.. muahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
@dougmahone it amazes me how ignorant people are. they really have no clue how the world today has benefited from all the defense spending of the last 70 yrs. all of the electronic devices today owe its existence to defense spending. its what made integrated circuits possible. i can't imagine someone walking around with a vacuum tube ipod. i know....what is a vacuum tube?? no its not an attachment to your vacuum cleaner! geezzzzzzzzzzz
Nuking God's creations is bad luck.
+onefodderunit Aborting God's unborn children and selling their body parts is much, much worse.....
+onefodderunit If Jesus had nukes he would have used them.
+Jeff Kunzelman So would psychotic anti-choice cristyun zealots!
@purovenezolano14
There'd be a lot more street crime for starters.
I dunno I always hear how big and dangerous these things are but the only one I’ve seen that actually looks impressive is the tsar, all the others seem smaller than I always expected
I wonder why there are birth defects, autisim, cancer?
FT: There have always been birth defects and cancer, unrelated to nukes. Dinosaurs got them. The overall increase in incidence is actually fairly small.
You got a problem with religious peapole?
,,the god is One, ,,,,,why treat rilegous,
Yeah you live in a world of denial, you really believe that fairytale bullshit? With 100% no legitimate evidence that it actually exists, you just have to have faith and worship something that doesn’t even have the balls to actually show him yet demands you worship him and give 10% of your money... I mean come on it’s so obviously a joke
I suppose you think the Russians never did any damage to the environment in the arms race? Because think again. They've caused far more devastation and disease than the US did. And besides, both sides were trying to defend themselves against the threat of extinction. Let's also not forget that France is the one still testing nuclear weapons today, while the US hasn't for decades. Might want to actually use your brain when you post next time. :)
Cancer Cancer
criminals! imagine all the radioactivity left in the sea!!
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha dude .... a nukes blast is about 8 miles right ? now there are supernova explosions of stars that were possibly even the size of our solar system . They cause a rip in space time . A little nuke explosion will at best leave a crater on the earth and poison the ground for years to come .