No idea why you would want to, but:
A nuke the size of a whale would be likely to be a multistaged thermonuclear device with a yield of around several hundred megatons. Assuming that you mean a classic cone shaped volcano, and assuming the bomb descended some way down the vent before detonating, it would explode below ground, creating a crater several hundred metres across. Effectively the top of the volcano would be blown off, pretty much the way it would have if there had been a large natural eruption.
One unfortunate consequence of this action would be the huge amount of fallout dispersed into the atmosphere due to the groundburst.
Most of the world's nations would sue you for contaminating their territory. I would advise against it.
Cheers!
A nuke the size of a whale would be likely to be a multistaged thermonuclear device with a yield of around several hundred megatons. Assuming that you mean a classic cone shaped volcano, and assuming the bomb descended some way down the vent before detonating, it would explode below ground, creating a crater several hundred metres across. Effectively the top of the volcano would be blown off, pretty much the way it would have if there had been a large natural eruption.
One unfortunate consequence of this action would be the huge amount of fallout dispersed into the atmosphere due to the groundburst.
Most of the world's nations would sue you for contaminating their territory. I would advise against it.
Cheers!
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Well, if don't arm the nuke BEFORE dropping it into the volcano, the following could happen:
1. The nuke impacts and gets lodged in the volcano vent when it has zero momentum (p +mv = 0.0000 m/sec) or
2. The nuke melts fractionally and becomes part of the magma in the magma chamber. The reverse of this process:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_…
1. The nuke impacts and gets lodged in the volcano vent when it has zero momentum (p +mv = 0.0000 m/sec) or
2. The nuke melts fractionally and becomes part of the magma in the magma chamber. The reverse of this process:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_…
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you have an extremely good imagination. Why a volcano? Im not an expert on these kinds of things but I dont think the volcano would make a difference if its a nuke the size of a whale. Not many people would live to tell the tale of what happened when they saw a nuke the size of a whale get dropped into a volcano.
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About the same thing is I were to stick a large fire cracker up your but and set it off.
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That is not a space or astronomy question. It is more of an Earth Sciences & Geology question.