08-26-2019, 04:45 AM
Fission bombs make persistently radioactive fallout. Back in the bad old days of above-ground tests (before they were banned for this reason), this environmental danger was mitigated by exploding them in remote areas (like South Pacific atolls).
Let’s load up a US-bound hurricane (with it’s immense updraft) with the same radioactive fallout. Even if it weakens the hurricane (which is questionable), the path of the possibly-weakened storm brings that radioactive fallout to the US in an unpredictable distribution.
But then, red gulf-state voters don’t believe in things like radioactivity, right? So really, what’s the problem? What good are nukes if we can’t use them? Can you say “Flo-radia”?
Let’s load up a US-bound hurricane (with it’s immense updraft) with the same radioactive fallout. Even if it weakens the hurricane (which is questionable), the path of the possibly-weakened storm brings that radioactive fallout to the US in an unpredictable distribution.
But then, red gulf-state voters don’t believe in things like radioactivity, right? So really, what’s the problem? What good are nukes if we can’t use them? Can you say “Flo-radia”?