Is it possible to make Mars inhabitable by nuking the surface? Kyle breaks down the possibility of atomic terraforming in this week's episode of Because Science!

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Terraforming Mars with four war-surplus bombs: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/...
Terraforming Mars: fanfare or feasible: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/201...
A synergistic approach to terraforming Mars: https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu...
Terraforming Mars: a review of research: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfo...
Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars: http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/maven/f...
The thermodynamics of planetary engineering on Mars: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/vie...