On: Odds of communicating with 36 other possible intelligent civilizations are small

[PeterisP]

The energy released by a nuke explosion is utterly insignificant compared to the light emitted by the sun so it would not be noticeable at all by a faraway observer looking at our star.

A directional pulse may be an option, but then you have to pick a particular star at which to aim it.

[jacobush → PeterisP]

So send the bombs out beyond Pluto first or however far is deemed optimal.