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I think if there are actual aliens and they are actually showing us that they can interfere with our nuclear equities its a last ditch effort to prevent us from killing ourselves without directly interfering. If they were involved in some sort of war I doubt we'd really be any use to them. If they're advanced enough to travel lightyears to our planet then our weaponry is as primitive as a cavemans club.
Then again maybe its humans are space orcs thing lol
This is my kind of thinking as well. While we may not be the only life in the universe, I imagine we're not exactly a common occurrence. Uncommon enough that they have the slightest interest in keeping us from not existing lol. And when I say "us" I mean life in general on earth, not specifically humans. It would be a fair solution for an advanced species to remove humanity if it meant other life gets to live, and that's unsettling/plausible.
Why would the aliens want to get rid of us, we're doing a fine job of that on our own