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Is Trump’s suggestion to bomb hurricanes really that stupid?

31 August 2019

9:00 AM

31 August 2019

9:00 AM

Blowing against the wind

President Trump was ridiculed for suggesting that hurricanes could be impeded on their passage across the Atlantic by bombing them. Yet there is nothing new in trying to stop or reduce the power of hurricanes by artificial means.
— Between 1962 and 1971 the US government ran an experiment called Project Stormfury to try just that.

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