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Elon Musk’s “Nuke Mars” campaign as I understand wouldn’t work.
yes it will release co2 into mars’ atmosphere, but the amount released will be insufficient to cause noteworthy warming. Additionally, the atmosphere created would spend the next few years being stripped away by the solar wind. This is because Mars’ magnetic field is very weak, or completely nonfunctional. This was also the reason Mars lost its water in the first place: its core cooled and solidified. A molten core is one of the prerequisites for a functional magnetic field. Without a molten core the magnetic field vanishes, which leaves the planet susceptible to solar radiation. This radiation gradually strips away atmosphere until it is too thin or gone completely and can no longer support liquid water.
So nuking Mars would not accomplish much.