A hole of say 1000 feet can be drilled next to it and the nuke dropped down it.
Again, nobody knows if it will work... but if the alternative is to stand on the gulf shore and watch ALL of the oil spew out unabated for the next decade (or three) as this thread implies... it is worth serious consideration.
Which is exactly why we should do it. I'm sure no EPA, OSHA or union rules would be violated here.
But now, with all this talk of seriously using the nuclear option, you got me thinking of possible Doomsday Scenarios.
Lets pretend that the real reason why there is so much pressure behind this oil, is because we have gotten remarkably close to a volcanic done between the oil pool the earth's inner core. And the seabed is sort of like a dam of earth and water between all of that evil and the environment we inhabit. So we cook off this nuclear warhead, but somehow, as in all government operations, the thing goes FUBAR and someone forgets to dial in "Plug The Damn Hole" on our deap-sea submersible W80 and instead it defaults to full power "Blow up the Astroid" mode, you know the one, where instead of using fusion or fission, it kicks into matter/anit-matter mode.
So instead of there just being a leaking pipe, we discover the original drilling was akin to boring a hole into the already fragile and questionably stable Three Gorges Dam. So punching in yet another hole further weakening our dam, we compound our foolishness by cooking off a nuke. The dam breaks and oil comes gushing out from a crater left behind the weakened wall of seabed. The seabed now collapses into the void made by the escaping oil. Water now pours in by the millions of gallons replacing what was once highly pressurized oil and methane.
The dramatic shift in the environment (including that nuclear blast) has caused the volcanic seam to crack open further and into the place where the oil once was. Now as the water displaces the oil it meets up with the magma and rapidly converts to steam. Steam as you know takes more room than liquid. Now we have endless water being poured on an open seam to the boundless heat of the earth's inner core, the compounding explosions of power of water vaporizing we have the ecological equivalent of a matter/anti-matter chain reaction.
The sea floor, rather than caving in, is blown outwards by the force of a million hurricanes. The methane ignites and creates a fireball visible from deep space burning up most of the world's oxygen and the sea water not yet converted to steam creates the mother of all tsunamis that knocks down homes in Kansas City.
We then cut to a scene, a thousand years from now as a weather beaten man and woman clothed only in tattered animals skins stare out into an ANWAR like desert wondering how they might tell their children many generations off about the Second Global Flood.
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