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To: locogringo who wrote (1159693)	8/26/2019 10:51:32 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1577025

DUMBASS POS Trump has reportedly suggested nuking hurricanes headed toward the U.S. Published: Aug 25, 2019 7:55 p.m. ET marketwatch.com Axios reports ‘astonishing’ suggestion made multiple times; ‘This is not a good idea,’ NOAA says By MIKEMURPHY EDITOR President Donald Trump has reportedly suggested a number of times that the U.S. explore using nuclear bombs to prevent hurricanes from hitting the U.S. mainland. Axios on Sunday reported that Trump has made the suggestion on multiple occasions in private meetings. According to Axios: “During one hurricane briefing at the White House, Trump said, ‘I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?’ according to one source who was there. ‘They start forming 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?’ the source added, paraphrasing the president’s remarks.” The official delivering the briefing was reportedly “astonished.” “After the meeting ended, we thought, ‘What the f---? What do we do with this?’” Axios’s source said. A senior administration official told Axios that Trump’s objective — to prevent devastating hurricanes from making landfall — was “not bad,” and said the suggestion was not cause for alarm. “For me, alarm bells weren’t going off when I heard about it, but I did think somebody is going to use this to feed into ‘the president is crazy’ narrative,” the source told Axios. The concept of nuking hurricanes is fraught with hazards. According to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, a blast might not even alter the storm’s path, and “the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems.” “Needless to say, this is not a good idea,” NOAA added on its website. Doing so would also be in violation of the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty, which the U.S. ratified in 1990.

To: locogringo who wrote (1159693)	8/26/2019 10:53:23 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1577025

DUMBASS Trump’s reported solution to hurricanes: ‘Nuke them’ US president reported to have asked officials multiple times if hurricanes could be bombed about 6 hours ago irishtimes.com US president Donald Trump has reportedly asked officials to explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes before they reach the United States. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Email App Donald Trump has asked senior officials to explore the potential of using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from reaching the United States, a US news website has reported. The US president made the suggestion multiple times in meetings with Homeland Security and national security officials, according to the news site, Axios. “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?”, Mr Trump is reported to have asked during one hurricane briefing at the White House. “They start forming 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?”, the president added, according to a source who was present at the meeting. The source said they were paraphrasing Mr Trump’s remarks. An official’s response to Mr Trump, according to the source, was: “Sir, we’ll look into that.” Mr Trump responded by asking how many hurricanes the US could handle and reiterating his suggestion that the government intervene before they made landfall. Trump says a vote for a Democrat is a vote against Israel ‘I promise not to do this’: Trump jokes about building Greenland hotel Trump confirms he is considering attempt to buy GreenlandThe official briefing him “was knocked back on his heels”, according to the source quoted by Axios. “You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, ‘What the f***? What do we do with this?’” Axios said Mr Trump raised the idea in another conversation with a senior administration official. The news site refers to a 2017 National Security Council memo that describes that conversation, in which Mr Trump asked whether the administration should bomb hurricanes before they hit the US. A source briefed on the NSC memo told Axios it did not contained the word “nuclear”, but just said the president had talked about bombing hurricanes. The source said the idea went nowhere and never entered a formal policy process. Asked for a response, a senior White House official told Axios it did not comment on private discussions “that the president may or may not have had with his national security team”. Axios points out that Mr Trump did not invent the idea of bombing hurricanes to keep them from reaching the US. “The notion that detonating a nuclear bomb over the eye of a hurricane could be used to counteract convection currents dates to the Eisenhower era, when it was floated by a government scientist. “The idea keeps resurfacing in the public even though scientists agree it won’t work,” the news site says. “The myth has been so persistent that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the US government agency that predicts changes in weather and the oceans, published an online fact sheet for the public under the heading ‘Tropical Cyclone Myths Page’. “The page states: ‘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. Needless to say, this is not a good idea.’”