FAQ

No, it's from an episode of "The Simpsons" titled "Deep Space Homer".

Yes, but very loosely. The H.G. Wells story was a short piece about a man dispatched to a colony in South America apparently destroyed by giant ants.

No. Nuclear waste would probally kill them. And even if ants could grow to be that size, due to the theory of relativity their physical bodies simply could not support them at that scale. They would be heavy and barely mobile.