Dirty Donald suggests we NUKE hurricanes??

People forget that in the 1950s, many people including President Eisenhower were big advocates of finding peaceful uses for nuclear weapons. Whether it was digging canals, opening access to deep deposits of oil, almost anything you can think of.

But it was said that in general people turned against any idea of using nuclear weapons for peaceful purposes. Thinking perhaps that if their use became accepted even for peaceful purposes that their acceptance as a part of armed conflicts would inevitably follow.

 

Jesus Christ. This moron is President?

 

I was just joking. Nuking a hurricane is some crazy stuff.

 

I was not being serious. Nuking a hurricane is preposterous.

But perhaps we could build a very large vacuum and suck up the hurricane like a house vacuum sucking up a hair ball.

 

No, it's a ridiculously asinine STUPID idea. Your average 6th grader would know better. What a gdam buffoon!

 

ENMU?

 

Actually it is not. As far as stopping the hurricane, it is entirely possible if you used in the right location at the right time.

 

Trump did not make that suggestion but you know that don't you.
"I can see Russia from my house"
"Al Gore invented the internet"
"Some very good people"

 

MSM = Fake News

 

You do know that many nuclear air burst have been done without any noticeable repercussion in the 50's and 60's.

Mission Date Yield Altitude
USA Hardtack I – Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean
Yucca 28 April 1958 1.7 kt 26.2 km
Teak 1 August 1958 3.8 Mt 76.8 km
Orange 12 August 1958 3.8 Mt 34 km
USA Argus – South Atlantic Ocean
Argus I 27 August 1958 1.7 kt 200 km
Argus II 30 August 1958 1.7 kt 240 km
Argus III 6 September 1958 1.7 kt 540 km
Soviet Union – 1961 tests – Kapustin Yar
Test #88 6 September 1961 10.5 kt 22.7 km
Test #115 6 October 1961 40 kt 41.3 km
Test #127 27 October 1961 1.2 kt 150 km
Test #128 27 October 1961 1.2 kt 300 km
USA – Dominic I – (Operation Fishbowl) – Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean
Bluegill 3 June 1962 failed
Bluegill Prime 25 July 1962 failed
Bluegill Double Prime 15 October 1962 failed
Bluegill Triple Prime 26 October 1962 410 kt 50 km
Starfish 20 June 1962 failed
Starfish Prime 9 July 1962 1.4 Mt 400 km
Checkmate 20 October 1962 7 kt 147 km
Kingfish 1 November 1962 410 kt 97 km
Soviet Union – Project K – Kapustin Yar
Test #184 22 October 1962 300 kt 290 km
Test #187 28 October 1962 300 kt 150 km
Test #195 1 November 1962 300 kt 59 km

 

I see you edited 'CNN reports' out of my humorous post. Why did you feel the need to alter my post?

 

The thing is people mock and ridicule this idea just because President Donald Trump mentioned it. In reality its like the idea of the U.S. buying Greenland. Using nuclear weapons against hurricanes has been proposed for years by people who have actually studied the concept. Just as the idea of buying Greenland has been proposed by people with serious foreign policy credential.

But people mock and deride those ideas solely because President Trump mentioned them. Not that he should have mentioned them as these responses were predictable.

 

And yet NOAA scientists are saying otherwise.

Also...
https://www.revealnews.org/article/...nuclear-tests-still-fighting-for-recognition/

https://qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-t...a-scale-comparable-to-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/

 

Just think if President Trump would have issued an executive order to tear down what border walls or fences there were and for the Border Patrol and ICE to stand down.

The Democrats in Congress would have appropriated a trillion dollars for building a wall and quadrupling the size of the Border Patrol and ICE.

 

Nuking a hurricane!

What a friggin dope

 

Don't be silly... Those aren't high altitude test. Your comparing apple to oranges.
I gave you the list of high altitude test, not the list of atmospheric test. Learn the difference please.

Atmospheric testing designates explosions that take place in the atmosphere. Generally these have occurred as devices detonated on towers, balloons, barges, islands, or dropped from airplanes, and also those only buried far enough to intentionally create a surface-breaking crater. Nuclear explosions close enough to the ground to draw dirt and debris into their mushroom cloud can generate large amounts of nuclear fallout due to irradiation of the debris.

Exoatmospheric (or High Altitude) testing refers to nuclear tests conducted above the atmosphere. The test devices are lifted on rockets. These high altitude nuclear explosions can generate a nuclear electromagnetic pulse (NEMP) when they occur in the ionosphere, and charged particles resulting from the blast can cross hemispheres following geomagnetic lines of force to create an auroral display.

Again, here's the list and check the last number of each test. That's the altitude of the explosion.

 

Operation Hardtack I, which you listed, is mentioned in the first link I provided.

 

Hardtack I includes about 40 test. Not all of them were high altitude. I'm talking about thew high altitude one and I only listed those.

 

Make all the excuses you like. Every report on using a nuke for a hurricane will cause radiation fallout. It's an absolutely stupid idea.

 

"citing conversations with sources who heard Trump's comments"

Were they holding a glass to the bathroom wall?

 

"Don't be stupid" is very insulting. That was uncalled for. I've been civil with you. Careful, lest the mods give you demerits.

Let me bottom-line this for you:

1. A nuke, even a big one, would have no effect on a hurricane, and even setting one off far away could have a deleterious effect on human populations, not to mention the local sea life. People on our west coast are beginning to find cancers that scientists predicted from the fallout that drifted across the Pacific after the earthquake/tsunami in 2011 and the damage to the Fukushima nuclear reactor.

2. Trump is an idiot for even thinking that. Most nine year olds could have told him why that's a bad idea.

 

No excuses needed when debating with someone with limited knowledge and honesty.

 

Right...so you know more than NOAA scientists...got it.

 

Probably not but I sure know better than you.

 

In Katrina 1577 people died in Louisiana and 238 died in Mississippi. Using a nuke to knockout a hurricane would need to be weighed against that and many other things, but there should be no fear of asking the question.

Most likely it's not even close to feasible, but ask the question honestly.