If a nuke is being dropped on your city and you try to shoot it down, some people think that would make it explode. But after piercing the armor, the bullet would have to ignite a layer of explosives that surround the core. And this is what would set off the nuclear explosion. But this layer of explosives is incredibly stable and can only be triggered by a detonator. Now, the detonator wire is only a fraction of an inch wide, meaning if the bullet cut it in half, it would actually disable the bomb, making it drop to the ground without going off.

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  1. What this video is leaving out is you'd need to somehow shoot all of the individual detonator wires. As there's something like 100. And if you somehow disabled one of them it would actually cause the explosion to spread radioactive fallout over a greater distance and kill more people.

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