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The 7 kilometers is the hard part.


We have drilled many oil wells deeper than 7km. We will just need a wider bore to fit that chubby nuke down the hole.


This borehole would effectively be a mineshaft. High yield nuclear weapons achieve around 5 Mt/ton, so a 81 Gt device would have a mass of 16,200 tons, about 1/3rd the displacement of a WW2 Iowa class battleship.

The deepest mine (a gold mine in South Africa) reaches a depth of 4 kilometers.




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