[fso301]

Why couldn't a nuclear bomb be used to neutralize/disrupt the wave?

[vger]

No nukes! Save the world for conventional weapons!

[asgardshill]

Why couldn't a nuclear bomb be used to neutralize/disrupt the wave?

Why not use conventional weapons (a few 'Big Bertha' JDAMS might be the ticket) in the same fashion that several small avalanches are triggered in snow country to prevent one massive avalanche.

[Styria]

Because a nuclear explosion is smaller than the wavelength of these waves. They would pass through it or around, and if you create a difraction pattern on the other side, there's the potential of creating a larger amplitude. The only way a nuclear weapon would stop it is if you blew off part of this wall that might fall. If the concern is about water inside the rocks creating pressure on it, why not just drill holes into it to let the water out?

What I fantasize about is putting a nuclear weapon inside a hurricane. Would it disrupt it, or would the added heat/energy power the cyclone (these things are heat engines, and the rising air in the eye is what causes the low pressure.