It's been suggested (foolishly) that in the light of all the devastation in Florida, we ought to use nuclear weapons to stop hurricanes before they come ashore.
That's all we need. A radioactive hurricane spreading nuclear radiation at 145 mph over an area for HOURS or DAYS. Really smart. Florida would be left uninhabitable after that. So would any other state that the hurricane or tropical storm touched. That would mean radioactive contamination of huge swaths of land as well.
No nuclear weapon in existence is big enough or powerful enough to stop a hurricane. If we used multiple weapons, it still wouldn't blow apart a hurricane. It would just be more radioactive.
The idea is not bad, but the means to do it is.
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