08-26-2019, 03:52 PM
$tevie wrote:
To be fair, the article states:
The big picture: Trump didn't invent this idea. 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...
When the U.S. first started making nukes, the government explored a lot of ideas for them, mostly ignoring the problem of radioactivity. They thought that they might use small nukes for mountain-excavation, seismology and widening waterways. Somebody even tried to harness nukes for oil and natural gas extraction, but when the public found out that it would poison their water and irradiate their cars and stoves, that fell out of favor.
Anything to promote nuclear proliferation.
We're supposedly in a more enlightened age now.