History Main / DeusExNukina

*** A mega-nuke called Horizon and awas described as a 1.2 giga-ton Phlebotinum enhanced nuke used to blow up a whole continent of Replicator cities.

** And let's not forget the Atlantis episode ''First Strike''
***** And for the hell of it, this troper can not remember the name of the device, but recalls a clip from YouTube from a Stargate episode in which they use a MIRV armed with...I think 12 500MT tipped warheads to take out a CONTINENT of replicator cities. Is that overkill?
******* Overkill? On the Sci-Fi Channel? Does not compute. BTW, it was called Horizon and IIRC, was described as a 1.2 giga-ton Phlebotinum enhanced nuke; although I think the details were given in a the SG1 episode "Beachhead", as opposed to the SGA episode "First Strike".
****** Given that it's Replicators we're talking about, which can rebuild their civilization conpletely from one nanite? I don't think it's overkill. More of a justified version of "It's the only way to be sure."

* In ''MassEffect'' a nuke has to be improvised from a ship's engines. Easy enough, However, the pick up ship only has time to [[spoiler:pick up one of your two human squadmates]].

** Ignoring a strict nuclear arsenal, ''StargateAtlantis'' seems to love causing huge explosions and shrugging off the fallout, morally and statistically. Rodney [=McKay=]'s 5/6 of an uninhabited star system is a good example.

* Humans construct a really big nuke in ''{{Sunshine}}'', in a desperate bid to, ahem, ''re-ignite the sun''. Read that again and cringe. A giant spaceship carries the bomb into the sun. Turns out, a robot crew would have been the better choice.

* In LarryNiven and Jerry Pournelle's novel ''Footfall'', an [[AlienInvasion alien invader]] is fought off using an Orion spaceship launched from near Tacoma, Washington. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Project Orion]] was a proposed late 50's, early 60's military program, to propel a spaceship by detonating nuclear weapons under a large metal plate to push it.

* The MD in Ender's Game, being delivered in a suicidal attack against the [[spoiler:buggers' homeworld to end it all]].

* Subverted in [[TheTripods The City of Gold and Lead]]. The hero's master tells him that long ago a nuclear submarine had hid during the AlienInvasion. Somehow word got to it of where the Tripod's city was, whereupon the submarine launched an ICBM at it. [[MissedMomentOfAwesome Unfortunately]] the missile is intercepted and the sub destroyed, but the Masters seem to have gotten the fright of their lives.

* The heroes construct a VERY atomic device to ruin the opening performance of Dr. Terwilliker's magnum opus in ''[[FiveThousandFingersOfDrT The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T]]''.

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* Subverted in [[TheTripods The City of Gold and Lead]]. The hero's master tells him that long ago a nuclear submarine had hid during the AlienInvasion. Somehow word got to it of where the Tripod's city was, whereupon the submarine launched an ICBM at it. [[MissedMomentOfAwesome Unfortunately the missile is intercepted and the sub destroyed, but the Masters seem to have gotten the fright of their lives.

* In the ''StarshipTroopers'' film, the mobile infantry use rocket-propelled mini-nukes to kill giant orbital defense bugs, and to clear out extensive subterranean bug colonies. Near the end, [[spoiler:Lt. Rico]] uses one in a MexicanStandoff between his fireteam and a group of bugs holding [[spoiler:his [[AcePilot love interest]]]] hostage. After the BlastOut, one trooper is [[spoiler:mortally wounded and [[HeroicSacrifice stays behind]]]] to keep the bugs at bay until the nuke [[spoiler:detonates in his hand]]. Yet the idea of using those mini-nukes to, say, wipe out those charging swarms of bugs attacking them [[HollywoodTactics never crosses their minds]]. No, they prefer using automatic rifles against a sea of kamikaze Bugs.

* When the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill continued to leak there were [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill#Considerations_of_using_explosives serious suggestions to use a hydrogen bomb to seal the leak.]]

* In TheFifties, when [[ILoveNuclearPower atomic power was still new]] and the U.S. Interstate Highway system was being built by the Defense Department, researchers proposed yow-yield nuclear weapons for [[AwesomeButPractical practical purposes]], such as '''paving the entire system with atomic weapons,''' turning the asphalt into atomic glass.

* In TheFifties, when atomic power was still new and the U.S. Interstate Highway system was a project of the Defense Department, researchers proposed yow-yield nuclear weapons for [[AwesomeButPractical practical purposes]], such as '''paving the entire system with atomic weapons,''' turning the asphalt into atomic glass.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Project Orion]] proposed flying to another star by building a space ship with a thick metal plate on enormous shock absorbers, and detonating nuclear weapons underneath it.

* [[CallOfDuty ''Modern Warfare 2'']] features one of these where [[spoiler: Captain Price and TF141 attack a Russian Submarine Base to use their nukes to EMP the East Coast of the US. Though, only Price]] knows exactly what he is going to do. Surprisingly, no one officially punishes them for it right after, but there is kind of a [[ManipulativeBastard reason]] [[ShockingSwerve for that]].

* The Russians are suggesting this to plug the BP oil spill in the Gulf. Seriously. They say they've done it before, with an 80% success rate.