Trump wants to nuke hurricanes!

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Not only a hurricane would be impervious to a nuke, the hurricane would carry dangerous fallout more efficiently. What's next? Arm sharks with chainsaws?

Well, I suppose nuking hurricanes could potentially be a good idea... if your goal was more efficiently destroying the human race. Which, at this point, might not be too bad an idea given that we’ve degenerated to the point where Trump actually won the highest office in the land (even if it was through Russian interference) and there’s a very real chance that we’ve already reached the point of no return on global warming.

Seriously, does nobody seem to grasp the whole “nuclear explosions=shittons of radioactive fallout after the initial explosion” thing? A nuke is not just an extremely effective explosive. The same force that causes that cool looking mushroom cloud spreads radioactive material across a certain radius of where the bomb went off (one type of this is called fallout), and given that Trump would be doing this to a hurricane, A MASSIVE FORCE OF WIND, that radius is going to be really fucking huge. If I sound condescending, that’s only because this is such a stupid idea that it needs it.

Not to nit pick, but fall out from nuclear weapons is to a substantial degree the artifact of the military requirements governing the design.    If the goal is to simply dump a lot of energy into the atmosphere using nuclear explosives to disrupt hurricanes, then it would be efficient to simply build very large devices with the highest possible explosive yield, much higher than most practical military weapons.   The physics of staged fusion explosive devices is such that the more powerful the device, the cleaner one could make it relative to its yield.    A 50 MT device can be far cleaner than 50 1 MT devices, and positively squeaky clean next to 2000 Hiroshima sized bombs, even though they would all dump the same amount of energy into the atmosphere.    So it is not necessarily true that very powerful nuclear explosive devices designed from the outset for non-military purposes needs entail high levels of radioactive fallout.

Besides understandable sensitivity to detonating nuclear devices for any purpose, the fundamental reason why using nuclear devices to stop hurricanes is stupid is any practical devices that can be delivered into the eye of a hurricane won't be nearly powerful enough to make a much of dent on a powerful hurricane.  

So just a factual correction