I know that it wouldn’t work, but I’d really like to know how to *explain* to people that it wouldn’t.
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Tldr: the size/amount of nukes required would produce enough fallout the make life in the islands and coastal regions in the gulf of Mexico unlivable
Hurricanes are big, with hundreds of times more energy than a nuke spread over a large distance. A nuke wouldn’t be powerful enough to disrupt this energy.
Some even think it might just make the hurricane even more powerful, as storms are typically empowered by strong updrafts, something a nuke is gonna do well while also putting a lot of energy into the system.
Even if it did work, we probably still wouldn’t do it for one reason, nuclear fallout. You’d probably have to use a nuke on average at least once a year, likely all in a particular region of the ocean. It’s also hard to predict hurricanes when they’re still in the middle of the ocean, so the time to take action might also be when it’s right over an inhabited island. Either way that’s a lot of radioactivity in the ocean, which can damage what’s living there.
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