Can a nuclear bomb blow up the whole mountain?

Whether a nuclear bomb can blow up the whole mountain depends on the equivalent of a nuclear bomb, the composition and size of the mountain, the distance between the mountain and the explosion point and other factors.

The explosion modes of nuclear bombs are divided into air explosion, ground explosion and underground detonation. The shock wave range of air explosion is the largest, but when it reaches the ground, its power has been attenuated a lot, which can destroy the vegetation and soil on the mountain surface, but it is not enough to blow the mountain away. When it touches the ground and explodes underground, the fireball area of the nuclear bomb will vaporize a part of the mountain, and the shock wave generated by the explosion may completely blow the mountain to pieces.

The power of a nuclear bomb:

Generally speaking, the unit to measure the power of nuclear weapons is "equivalent". The capacity released by a nuclear explosion is equivalent to the energy released by the explosion of many tons of TNT explosives.

In the current mainstream nuclear bombs, the 10,000-ton class is quite common, and the super warhead can even reach 10 million tons or even 100 million tons. The destructiveness caused by a nuclear explosion depends not only on the equivalent of a nuclear bomb, but also on the nature of the nuclear bomb, the number of warheads, the explosion height, and even on weather factors such as wind, wind direction, sunny and rainy days.

Early nuclear bombs were all nuclear bombs, and most of them were detonated when they touched the ground. Houses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan are mostly wooden structures with small floors. So the result is the destruction of the city. Nowadays, cities are full of reinforced concrete skyscrapers, and high-density and high-strength buildings will greatly weaken the shock wave power of nuclear bombs.