Posted on 08/26/2019 8:17:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Trump on Monday tried to shoot down a report that said he "suggested multiple times" to top officials that they should look into whether a nuclear bomb could stop a massive hurricane in its tracks.
Axios, citing unnamed sources, reported Sunday that Trump made the comments to Homeland Security and other officials. Their source paraphrased the president talking about how hurricanes form off the coast of Africa.
"As they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?" he reportedly asked.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the nuclear option is a bad idea. "Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems," the website read.
The source said those present in the meeting were astonished. Trump reportedly inquired about the use of a nuclear bomb on more than one occasion.
Trump took to Twitter on Monday to call the report “ridiculous.”
“I never said this. Just more FAKE NEWS,” he tweeted.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Most likely it was a inside joke.
Faux News tries to cover its Stealth Attack on Trump.
The key point is Trump still has someone on his staff who is leaking or making up this nonsense.
The key point is Trump still has someone on his staff who is leaking or making up this nonsense.
If so, my guess he is putting stuff like that out in small meetings till he ids the turd doing this. Expect someone to leave shortly on very short notice if that is the case.
Who knows. Trump is known for thinking outside the box and spit-balling a lot. He could have asked this in passing or out of curiosity. But regardless of the circumstances it’s further evidence, if such evidence is needed, that his administration leaks like a sieve.
The slimeball media
or maybe the dude from Axios just made it up.
Research concerning cloud seeding is something that should be pursued.
If it were possible to seed a hurricane and downgrade a Category 4 or Category 5 hurricane into a Category 1 or a tropical storm, that would be good news.
Or figure out a way to steer them into the open North Atlantic where they would dissipate over the cold ocean waters.
“Drop a bomb” has to be a nuclear bomb?
They explored that option in the 50’s.............
This seems to be a new tactic (or should I see a new implementation of an old tactic)
Russia didn’t work, Stormy didn’t work, More Russia didn’t work, Tax returns didn’t work, etc...
So just toss out story after story after story to force him to spend all his time denying crap.
Get it right, he said “Nuke The Whales”
The programs were under an umbrella program titled "Nukes for Peace".
No, it’s “Nuke the unborn gay whales for Jesus!”
Q: What’s worse than a hurricane?
A: A radioactive hurricane.
I’m just sayin’
I grew up downwind from the Nevada nuclear test site. When they stopped atmospheric testing, I stopped growing. I had to give up my dreams of being an NBA superstar. I’m now an inch shorter than I was in 1962.
I blame the Nuclear test ban treaty.
Trump: I didn’t say ‘nuke a hurricane. I said nuke CNN.”
Heck, I don’t think that Obama would have even considered that feasible....oh wait.
We have a President who knows the radiation from a nuclear bomb would spread, and cause more damage possibly than a nuclear impact, therefore IF, which I believe he did not make the statement, cause it’s stupid, and he is not he made any such a statement, or expression was either joking, or setting up someone for a leak test.
Somewhere, somehow, “a bomb” became “a nuclear bomb”. That is truly fake news, but then I believe our President the whole thing is fake news.
If so, this falls under the category of silly stuff.
“Research concerning cloud seeding is something that should be pursued.”
cloud seeding had been under way with a vengeance in Colorado up until the Big Thompson flood occurred on July 31, 1976, when the skies opened up over the Big Thompson Canyon, setting off the deadliest natural disaster in Colorado history that claimed 144 lives and caused $35 million of damages, while wiping out U.S. highway 34 between Loveland and Estes Park.
cloud seeding was abruptly terminated right after that and never pursued again in the U.S. as it was feared by many that the seeding was responsible for the massive rain that caused that flood ...
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