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Apr 4, 2007 · With Jamie Luner, Jack Scalia, Meredith McGeachie, David Millbern. A "highly sophisticated computer system" at a nuclear power plant goes crazy. To make matters worse, it develops a capacity for reason and malice while a tropical island storm is blowing into town.
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- Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Fred Olen Ray
- 2007-04-04
- How A Hurricane Forms
- Hurricanes Emit A Mind-Boggling Amount of Energy
- Nuclear Fallout Would Spread
Hurricanesare vast low-pressure cyclones with wind speeds over 74 mph (119 km/h) that form over warm water in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. When warm moisture rises, it releases energy, forming thunderstorms. As more thunderstorms are created, the winds spiral upward and outward, creating a vortex. Clouds then form in the upper atmosphere as the warm air...
Hurricanes are extremely powerful: A fully developed hurricane releases the same amount of energy as the explosion of a 10-megaton nuke every 20 minutes, the NOAA article says. That's more than 666 times bigger than the "Little Boy" bomb that the US dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. So in order to match the energetic power of a hurricane, there...
The NOAA article also says that if we were to nuke a hurricane, radioactive fallout would spread far beyond the bounds of the hurricane. "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 authors wrote. Fallou...
Biden claimed Trump once considered detonating a nuclear device inside of a hurricane to stop it—but did Trump really?
Aug 26, 2019 · If you think dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane is a bad idea, wait'll you see what they had in mind for the polar ice caps. In the Atomic Age, US scientists had plans to...
Nov 30, 2016 · Nuking Hurricanes: The Surprising History of a Really Bad Idea. On October 11, 1961, the head of the U.S. Weather Bureau said he could “imagine the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear ...
Aug 27, 2019 · A bizarre 60-year-old idea to fight hurricanes using nuclear weapons resurfaced this week after Axios reported that President Trump raised the possibility with his national security advisors.
Jan 6, 2019 · During each hurricane season, someone always asks “why don’t we destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them” or “can we use nuclear weapons to destroy a hurricane?” There always appear suggestions that one should simply nuke hurricanes to destroy the storms.
