Bad News: Turns Out We Can't Just Nuke an Asteroid - Time for Plan B

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about recent research indicating that asteroids are immune to nuclear weapons and cannot be affected by them.

The study here: https://releases.jhu.edu/2019/03/04/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-asteroids-are-stronger-harder-to-destroy-than-previously-thought/

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