From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: "There Was A Time When SCIENTISTS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Were
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:52:40 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-08-15 17:38, AlleyCat wrote:
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> On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:14:46 -0000 (UTC), Kenny McCormack says...
>
>>
>> In article <107nlbe$17858$1@dont-email.me>, N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:
>>> NHC gives peak wind of 140mph as it circumnavigates the north Atlantic
>>> ,staying over water
>>> https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&basin=atlc&fdays=7
>>> and
>>> https://www.cyclocane.com/erin-spaghetti-models/
>>
>> Hoax!
>>
>> Fake news!
>>
>> Uncle Donnie will keep us safe!
>
> Remember when you gay nerds laughed at Trump for ASKING if a hurricane could be stopped by a nuke?
>
> Did you REALLY think he was the first to ask this question or ponder whether it would work?
>
> Bet you feel all kinds of stupid nerd now, huh?
>
> =====
>
> "There was a time when SCIENTISTS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES were themselves
> seriously considering the nuclear option. In a speech delivered at the
> National Press Club on October 11, 1961, Francis W. Riechelderfer, THE
> HEAD OF THE U.S. WEATHER BUREAU, said he could "imagine the possibility
> someday of exploding a nuclear bomb on a hurricane far at sea."
>
> =====
>
> If the head of the weather bureau could suggest such a thing, is it out of
> the realm of possibility that someone else, like Trump, could?
More than 50 years after the idea had been dismissed?