How many nuclear warheads does it take to destroy the world?

Question

well how many?

in todays technology

and the H-bomb?

Answer 1

Not nearly as many that exist. lol. We have enough to blow up Jupiter.  

Answer 2

One Submarine

Answer 3

Without sounding like a hippie - we're already destroying the word.

Answer 4

Properly deployed and detonated, it's been estimated that 12 ThermoNuclear warheads for 100,000 tons each could split the world in two.

Answer 5

I think a dozen drilled down as fas as we can to the center of the earth brom both the North and South Poles... That could do enough damage to upset the balance of nature and the planet...

Answer 6

I have read studies on this top

Physicists dis-agree on the math model. However it appears somewhere between 100,000 warheads and 1,000,000 warheads.

The big problem is to lift enough dirt into the stratsophere, to block the sunlight for 6 months.

It takes a lot fo lifting to do it. So none of those warheads can be high altitude bursts.

Answer 7

a long time ago i read that the U.S. and Russia had enough nuclear stock piles that it could destroy the world 10 times over but they never said how many it would take specifically

u have to take into effect that nuclear missiles have multiple warheads in them

as for precise numbers then there is no way to be sure but just to guess i would say that around 10,000 would be over kill

and if you target specific areas worldwide and set them off at the exact same time to have a sequenced detonation then it wouldnt take that many to make a nuclear holocaust which would lead to nuclear winter then the whole fallout and radiation poisoning, lack of sun light, dying plant life and animals, acid rain and yada yada yada

Answer 8

More than mankind could ever produce.  We can scratch the surface a little bit, but we can't really do any serious damage to the planet.