[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.

[vger]

Oohh cool idea. Did you ever think about what would happen if you torched off a Hindenburg inside of a tornado? That's the question I need answered!