Imagine Setting Off a Nuclear Bomb in the Deepest Part of the Ocean

Imagine Setting Off a Nuclear Bomb in the Deepest Part of the Ocean

We've done underground nuclear tests, and we've done underwater nuclear tests. We found out that they work, and they did some nasty environmental damage. But what if we were to take those tests to an even deeper, more remote location, like, say, the Mariana Trench? And let's make it a really big bomb, like the Tsar Bomba! That's the question answered in the latest episode of the What If? series (previously at Neatorama) from Randall Monroe and H…