Researchers, including some from NASA, say the best option to stop an asteroid with a 4% chance of smashing into the moon and a .00081% chance of slamming into Earth may be to nuke it. Researchers estimate the asteroid’s weight could be as high as 2 billion pounds, leaving a DART mission out of the question. Instead, they argue that a “nuclear disruption” mission, with a launch window between late 2029 and late 2031, would be the most effective solution. The plan involves deploying a pair of 100-kiloton nuclear bombs capable of traveling to the asteroid. Futurism.com reports that such bombs are five to eight times more powerful than the nuclear bombs that the U.S. dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945.