Nuclear bomb is the strongest human weapon. But the impact of its destruction will not be able to change the rotation of the Earth from its axis. Like what?
How to find out that by comparing the nuclear explosion energy with motion round the Earth. Largest nuclear bomb has exploded a few hundred megatons of energy, or about 10 ^ 17 Joules, while the Earth’s rotation energy around 10 ^ 29 Joules.
So, even if all nuclear explosive power used to push the Earth in a certain direction, the energy of this impulse no less than one trillion rotational energy. Proverbial, like trying to change the car while driving with the energy of a mosquito flying.
In fact, even the biggest earthquake has only a very small effect on the rotation of our planet. The scientists calculate, colossal Sumatra quake that triggered the 2004 tsunami led to ’slimming’ Earth.
It shortens the time a millionth of a second and shifted the North Pole as far as one inch. The number of fault motion energy (’slimming-Earth’) in an earthquake measuring 9.3 on the Richter Scale (SR) is estimated at more than 10 ^ 22 Joules, or about 100 thousand times larger than the largest nuclear bomb.
Thus, the effects of nuclear explosions on the earth’s rotation will be well below that measured. Finally, even nuclear explosions have little effect on the earth’s orbit around the sun.
Because the planet’s orbital energy of 10 thousand times greater than rotational energy. This fact did not prevent the making of the film in 1961 titled "The Day the Earth Caught Fire," featuring a nuclear test could alter Earth’s orbit and towards the sun.
