Quote Originally Posted by Arathorn136 View Post
You forget that you can shape charges. All they would be doing is collapsing the pipe in on itself, and shifting the surrounding bedrock to fill the hole. I don't mean by nuke that we should just drop a nuclear bomb into the ocean, get out of the way and cross our fingers.

But you just have to look at Russia's success rate with this method. 80%. Isn't it work giving it a shot?
That is not actually what nuking it would do, the way nuking would work is the pressure and heat of the explosion to turn the bedrock into glass. Hopefully stopping the flow of oil.