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After seeing Pacific Rim, I wanted to see what the effects of being on the ocean floor would have on an explosion. Is it appropriate to use the pressure from the bottom of the pacific ocean in place of the atmospheric pressure used in G.I. Taylor's yield equation?

>>4360115

>We cannot nuke them without tsunami-ing ourselves!

Actually deep-sea nuclear testing (while admittedly, and thankfully, scarcely done in its heyday and forbidden now) only evaluated that it causes a singular large wave, nothing even near the continuous devastation of a tsunami.

Although it kills a SHITTON of fish.