Can lightning get into my house?
1. The FBI is not a secret society. 2. There is no known way that anyone on Earth can stop an asteroid from hitting Earth. 3. There are no asteroids predicted to hit Earth.
No we would have no chance at all im afraid. Even if we found out in advance I dont think that we could do anything only fire war heads at it, and that would just split it up and cause more harm than good.
Various groups are working on it right now. It would help if you hang a five pointed pentacle on the north side of your house and invoke the Rule of Rede.
I'm am looking forward to the fall for 1 reason, David Archuleta and David Cook's CDs are coming out! Yay!
A nuke would make no difference at all. However, in one particular case, 99942 Apophis, somebody at NASA did propose a scheme. Apophis is scheduled for a moderately close approach in 2029, and before they had details of its orbit there was some chance of an even closer approach in 2036. neo.jpl.nasa /apophis/ If you scroll down to the section called Mitigation you'll see that because it passes close to the sun, they calculated that putting 250 kg of reflective material on Apophis would be enough to change a hit into a miss using nothing but the light pressure from the sun.
