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Exploding a nuke at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
Original: What if you set off a nuke in the Mariana Trench?
Randall Munroe's What If? tackles the hypothetical of detonating a nuclear bomb in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the ocean. The piece walks through what the crushing water pressure and eleven kilometres of seawater would do to the blast, and it has drawn millions of reactions as readers share the counterintuitive findings.
Why now: The latest What If? installment combines nuclear weapons and the ocean's deepest point, a striking thought experiment that fans are widely sharing and debating.
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- What if you set off a nuke in the Mariana Trench? · xkcd's What If? · 2.6M
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