Can nuclear weapons be used against aliens?

At present an all out nuclear war can only kill some 5 % of the world population … so the idea that it could end life on Earth is ridiculous. read more

Should aliens actually land, nuclear weapons can be deployed either by aircraft or missile (artillery, rockets, and mines have all been dismantled). read more

It might use nuclear weapons against aliens if their existence is under threat. It might be futile as I have explained. I am sure any other alien race would be stronger than the Martians above. read more

Why aliens would use interstellar travel to come all the way to Earth and disable a few missiles here and there rather than, I don’t know, making contact or something, is up for debate, I guess. "To me this is just another case of UFO fantasy and speculation," UFO expert Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told IFLScience. read more

In an interview with the Mirror Online, he says that aliens came to Earth to prevent a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In the interview, he references the famous White Sands Missile Range facility in New Mexico, where the world’s first atomic bomb – Trinity – was tested on July 16, 1945. read more