During his administration, Donald Trump, like almost every other US president, had to deal with hurricane-related tragedies. Unlike the others we know about, he may have had his personnel investigate the likelihood that the storms were launched by China from hurricane cannon. According to unidentified individuals close to the former president who talked to Rolling Stone, Trump asked his national-security advisors near the start of his presidency whether China possessed a weapon that could manufacture storms and aim them toward the United States.
After inquiring about this hypothetical weapon, which very definitely does not exist, he questioned his staff if using such a weapon would be considered an act of war, justifying military action against China, which has the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal. One insider told Rolling Stone, “It was almost too ridiculous for words.” “I didn’t get the impression he was kidding.”
Over the next year, the president mentioned the hurricane gun multiple times until abandoning the concept in 2018. The president brought it up immediately before suggesting nuking hurricanes during a hurricane briefing, according to the sources. Surprisingly, Trump is not the only one who has advocated this concept.
“Every hurricane season, someone wonders, ‘Why don’t we nuke tropical cyclones?” or “Can we use nuclear weapons to kill a storm?” states the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in its Frequently Asked Questions section of its website. “Aside from the reality that this strategy may not even affect the storm, this approach ignores the issue that the unleashed radioactive fallout would soon proceed with the tradewinds to damage land regions, causing terrible environmental consequences.”
“It goes without saying that this is not a good concept.” They explain that because hurricanes are large concentrations of low-pressure air, they may potentially be neutralized by increasing air pressure. Hurricanes, on the other hand, are so powerful that they emit heat equivalent to “a 10-megaton nuclear bomb bursting every 20 minutes,” therefore a nuclear detonation will not degrade or deflect a cyclone already in progress.
In essence, you’d be converting an environmental disaster into an environmental disaster with nuclear radiation added to it. Hurricanes being nuked are a horrible and impractical notion. Every year, first-year physics students at Austalia National University refute the popular belief. Professor Paul Francis, who teaches the subject, told that nuking a storm would be as successful as trying to stop an oil tanker with a handgun. “A storm is 100,000 times more powerful than the United States’ most potent nuclear weapon.”
