I think if there are actual aliens and they are actually showing us that they can interfere with our nuclear equities its a last ditch effort to prevent us from killing ourselves without directly interfering. If they were involved in some sort of war I doubt we’d really be any use to them. If they’re advanced enough to travel lightyears to our planet then our weaponry is as primitive as a cavemans club.

Then again maybe its humans are space orcs thing lol

My family had several tvs that did this until around 2013