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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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has this on their [FAQ page](https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html)
The full FAQ page is [here](https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqC.html).
The side effects is the real reason not to try it. The fallout would follow the storm path towards the land that you are trying to protect.
But aside from that, hurricanes are too big. We’d have to detonate a very large amount of nuclear weapons to have any impact.
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