Hypothetical NASA Asteroid Exercise Destroys Europe. Wait, What?

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an interesting NASA asteroid exercise that determined we are very vulnerable to a potential strike. Additional reading: https://www.llnl.gov/news/different-neutron-energies-enhance-asteroid-deflection https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/06/event-201-health-security/
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/32433848.pdf https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/pd/cs/pdc21/pdc21_day2_briefing2.pdf https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/pd/cs/pdc21/pdc21_final_briefing.pdf Image  Credit: LLNL SpaceX Phoenix7777  , CC BY-SA 4.0 , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_OK#/media/File:Animation_of_2019_OK_orbit_around_Earth.gif NASA/JPL National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office NASA/Johns Hopkins APL Mattcomm  , CC BY-SA 3.0 , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission#/media/File:Bucky1.gif Tomruen  , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_OK#/media/File:2019_OK-orbit.png , CC BY-SA 4.0 Kosmo et al. Video used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQx3kRR60Qk&t=2s

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