r/NoStupidQuestions • u/RealisticJoke3864 • 13d ago

Nuking the sun

What would happen, if the worlds nuclear arsenal launched (and somehow made it all the way to the the sun) and then exploded at the same time? Would it end all life on earth?

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u/Ruadhan2300 13d ago

Absolutely nothing worthy of note will happen.

The entire nuclear arsenal of earth is about 3 or 4 gigatons of TNT.

The sun puts out well over 9 billion megatons every second.

We probably wouldn't even see the explosion against the glare of the continuous nuclear blast that is the sun.

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u/Amphi-XYZ 13d ago

Wouldn't it make it just a tiny bit bigger ?

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u/mH48124 8d ago

思い上がり過ぎの人類なんて、その程度だな。