No, the detonator of an atomic bomb is a little bomb itself. The energy required to to detonate is much greater than anyplaincrash could cause. I find it amusing (relatively, we are still talking about weapons of mass destruction) that a thermonuclear bomb need a regular atomic bomb to trigger, wich needs a regular bomb to detonate. So we are just stacking bombs on bombs on bombs to make them stronger.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

the detonator of an atomic bomb is a little bomb itself.

Just to clarirify, the explosion needed to set off a nuke is far from little. Am implosion type nuke uses a bit over 2 tons of high explosives to set off the core.

[–] herrvogel 8 points 4 days ago

Nukes are difficult enough to detonate intentionally, so no, it probably won't happen. I mean it probably will detonate, but it'll just be the conventional explosives in it. The fissile material that was supposed to explode will instead get thrown all over the place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Nah, or the broken arrow incidents wouldn't be as obscure as they are

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Short answer: No. Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooo