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Nuke the Hurricanes
#1
This topic is ONLY about the concept of nuking hurricanes in an attempt to prevent landfall on American territory, which includes Hawaii. This would most likely include every hurricane passing east to west near the Big Island or prior to reaching the islands.

TO KEEP THIS TOPIC LOCAL PLEASE DO NOT USE NAMES OF POLITICAL FIGURES. Heads of committees, scientists, etc are fine.

"I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them?" according to one source who was there. "They start forming... as they're moving across... we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?" the source added, paraphrasing the Person’s remarks.

He has suggested multiple times to senior Homeland Security and national security officials that they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the United States, according to sources who have heard the Person’s private remarks and been briefed on a National Security Council memorandum that recorded those comments.


The notion that detonating a nuclear bomb over the eye of a hurricane could be used to counteract convection currents dates to the Eisenhower era, when it was floated by a government scientist.

The idea keeps resurfacing in the public even though scientists agree it won't work. The myth has been so persistent that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. government agency that predicts changes in weather and the oceans, published an online fact sheet for the public under the heading "Tropical Cyclone Myths Page."

https://www.axios.com/trump-nuclear-bomb...3f51c.html

What do you think? If a hurricane was headed this way, projected as a direct hit, would a little fallout and radiation be an acceptable trade off? Even if scientists say it wouldn’t work?
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves
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#2
Large-scale desecration of the sky. There will be protests.
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#3
There will be protests.

... and SkyProtectors fly into the storm in Cesnas & Beechcrafts.
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves
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#4
I'm not convinced that creating radioactive clouds and precipitation in a hurricane would improve things once the storm makes landfall.
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#5
It would make more sense to have hurricane proof infrastructure... but I know I'm just be ridiculous.
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#6
have hurricane proof infrastructure

No, destruction is necessary to support the only other industry we have: disaster recovery.
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#7
Sounds like someone that wants to nuke mars to geo engineer it. Or that one time they were going to use nukes to make canals or widen the panama canal.
These ideas have been bounced around since the inception of them. Only makes more sense using them now perhaps because the nuclear devices are so much cleaner than they used to be in the 60's. If there is such a thing as a clean nuke?
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#8
Kander - I suspect you're thinking if a neutron bomb which is a low-yield nuclear bomb. The problem with that is that you then lose any potential of disrupting the storm while at the same time still ending up with the problem of water containing radioactive fission products.
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#9
oh Tom, whats a little isotopes between friends? It builds strong bones and is part of a balanced Fukashima breakfast.
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#10
You grew up near Chernobyl, didn't you? Wink
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