Trump wants to nuke hurricanes!

[Rev. Rye]

Okay, so looking at the Tsar Bomba, the only 50 MT nuke ever made, some salient facts:

• It was so big that the deploying plane needed to have its bomb bay doors and fuselage fuel tanks removed.
  
• The fireball (with a diameter of 5 miles) never reached the ground, due to the shockwave, and reached the same altitude as the deploying plane
  
• To give the pilots a 50% chance of survival, the bomb was given a small parachute to buy them time before the bomb went off, and the creation of this parachute disrupted the Soviet nylon industry. 
  
• Everything in a 35 kilometer radius of ground zero was destroyed.
  
• Admittedly, the fallout was limited, due to a highly efficient detonation (the effects of hurricane winds might compensate for any particular safety measures that ensured this the first time.)
  
• The 50 MT yield wasn't even the full projected yield, with a potential 100 MT yield possible. If detonated, it was calculated that "The effect of this bomb at full yield on global fallout would have been tremendous. It would have increased the world's total fission fallout since the invention of the atomic bomb by 25%."
  
• There is a general consensus that a 50 MT nuke is too big to be useful.
  
• The detonation of the Tsar Bomba was one of the major catalysts of the 1963 Partial Test Ban.
  
• The biggest nuke ever detonated by the US, the Castle Bravo test, only had a yield of about 30% that of the Tsar Bomba.
  
• The biggest nuke we have at the moment, the B83, is about 2.4% the yield.
  

I'm still kind of dubious that a bigger nuke could potentially be cleaner.