Russia Plans to Carry Out a Test for Destroying Asteroid by Nuclear Bomb

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Recently, according to foreign media reports, Russia wants to carry out a nuclear bomb upgrade plan, namely that to emission the nuclear bomb outside of the atmosphere through the intercontinental ballistic missile, in order to destroy asteroids, which would pose a threat to earth. 

The asteroid named 99942 Apophis has became the attacked target. Nuclear bomb is a kind of sophisticated weapons that destroy the targets by the tremendous energy that released by nuclear reaction, but the process is often accompanied by a large nuclear pollution and nuclear radiation, which will cause great harm to human survival environment and human health.

The plan of using nuclear bomb to destroy the asteroid of Russian appears to be a powerful measure of space defense, but this measure will cause great nuclear pollution in space, and it is difficult to be eliminated. The proposal has not yet entered the implementation stage, on the one hand, the project funding is too expensive, on the other hand, the security factor is not known yet. However, if the plan can be implemented, tungsten alloy material will become an important promoter of the launch of a nuclear bomb. In order to prevent the nuclear bomb burning when entering the atmosphere due to the strong heat, the shell of the nuclear bomb is usually required to have a superior heat resistance and corrosion resistance. The high density, high heat resistance and corrosion resistance of tungsten alloy make it a perfect material for making the shell of nuclear bomb. In addition, the tungsten alloy has a super radiation shielding capability, which can be well used for shielding the nuclear radiation of the nuclear bomb charge, such as plutonium, uranium etc..

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