Can You Stop a Hurricane by Nuking It?
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Can You Stop a Hurricane by Nuking It?
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#2"Unfortunately, this idea, which has been around in some form since the 1960s, wouldn't work." :-(
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#3A less baity title: You cannot stop a hurricane by nuking it.
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#4A less baity title: You cannot stop a hurricane by nuking it.
If the headline is a question, the answer is no.
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#5Why bring up nuclear weapons at all? Modern science has brought us the MOAB and the ATBIP, which are non-nuclear.
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#6When I taught Intro Chemistry at university, I had a fun bonus project for the students when we got to the unit on thermodynamics. The assignment was to assume that an ideal nuclear device was set off in the eye of a major hurricane such that all of the thermodynamic energy of the explosion was converted to expansion work (and to treat the eye as a closed container). The question was to figure out by how much the diameter of the eye would increase as a result.
The correct answer is: about 8 inches.
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#7Why bring up nuclear weapons at all? Modern science has brought us the MOAB and the ATBIP, which are non-nuclear.
Because their yields are several orders of magnitude lower than modern nuclear warheads.
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#8A less baity title: You cannot stop a hurricane by nuking it.
If the headline is a question, the answer is no.
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#9One idea that rears its head almost every hurricane season recently is the notion of bombing a hurricane into submission.
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Finally, whether the bomb would have a minor positive effect, a negative effect, or none at all on the storm's convection cycle, one thing is for sure: It would create a radioactive hurricane, which would be even worse than a normal one.
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#10One idea that rears its head almost every hurricane season recently is the notion of bombing a hurricane into submission. ... Finally, whether the bomb would have a minor positive effect, a negative effect, or none at all on the storm's convection cycle, one thing is for sure: It would create a radioactive hurricane, which would be even worse than a normal one.
Does this idea seriously raise its head almost every hurricane season? Is there any citation for that?
Who (other than Michael Bay) is talking about nuking hurricane?
edit: tried some google news searches, I can't find any discussion about bombing a hurricane other than this article.