Re: Rita



Roger Hembury wrote:

Completly barking mad question -

If a 5 megaton nuke was detonated in the eye of the storm (when it was way off-shore) would it stop the storm in it's tracks? Would the pro's - stopping the storm before it hits land and therefore no multi-billion dollar storm damage - out weigh the cons - radiation and maybe some damage from the blast - of doing this.

Roger


The US Government considered using nukes along with cloud seeding in hurricanes a few years ago but the radiation lasts for thousands of years. In Ritas case detonating a nuclear weapon in it would render the south coast of the usa uninhabitable and make no difference whatsoever as the energy locked up in tropical revolving storms measures in gigatons of tnt..

Les

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