I wonder if it would work?
Maybe not a nuke but a large-ish explosion - like a FAE (which sucks all the air out anyway.)
I heard that when they set off a FAE near the Afghanistan caves it would create such a vacuum it would suck everything right out of the caves. I would pay good money to see that, I bet it was hilarious.
1) If he said “nuke” I doubt he really meant “nuke”.
2) If this conversation took place, like others said, it sounds more like just sounding off ideas to prevent hurricanes from harming people and cities
3) We have some technologies such as seeding clouds for rain. Dunno how well any of that works
4) I am no expert but I doubt even a “really big bomb” would work. Hurricanes stretch something like 300 miles wide. A nuke might work but sounds absurd. Perhaps a large number of large bombs could break the storms up in the atmosphere? I dunno.
5) How about other technologies such as frequency waves to disrupt the formation of hurricanes?
6) All ideas are worth thinking through. Most of them will have unintended consequences I would imagine. I don’t think anyone would want to test nuclear explosions.
We have been in the leanest hurricane years on record since 2006 when every media whore on the planet were screaming at the top of their lungs that cat 5 hurricanes were going to be weekly and kill us all.
Just what I wondered too.
I just nuked a potato in my microwave oven, it has acquired new usage as a term meaning “to apply a lot of energy to”.
They call it "The Kamala Harris"
It would not work.
All it would do is very effectively spread radiation.
The amount of energy produced by a nuclear bomb is insignificant compared ot the vast quantities of energy released by a hurricane. It might make the hurricane wobble a bit but it would probably reform.
Our class did the math for that in my undergrad met class.