Lawrence Livermore Researchers Testing Out Nuclear Blast Defense Against Earth-Threatening Asteroids – CBS New York

Lawrence Livermore Researchers Testing Out Nuclear Blast Defense Against Earth-Threatening Asteroids – CBS New York: It sounds like a scene from a Hollywood sci-fi thriller, but researchers from Lawrence Livermore National lab have joined with an Air Force team of technologists to test if a nuclear blast could be used to deflect a earth-threatening asteroid.