Armageddon is infamous among scientists for being one of the most scientifically inaccurate films ever produced. In the movie, Bruce Willis presses the button on a nuclear bomb to split and Earth-ending asteroid into two parts that harmlessly sail past.
But the problem here is power. If Bruce Willis were to achieve what he did, he would need a bomb at least a billion times more powerful than the largest nuclear weapon humanity has ever made.
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