Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles This RealLifeLore video is made possible by Tab For A Cause. Install their free browser extension by clicking the link in the description to help with hurricane disaster relief across the United States and elsewhere. Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons are some of the most destructive natural disasters that occur on our planet. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused over 105 billion dollars in damages and hurricane Sandy in 2012 caused over 74 billion dollars in damages. The amount of damage caused in North America and the Carribean by this most recent hurricane season in 2017 will likely be unprecedented. But what if there is a way to destroy a hurricane before it could actually make landfall and cause any damage? Various theories have been proposed throughout history of ways to do this but perhaps the most outlandish idea is to fire nuclear weapons into a hurricane. So would this actually work? And what would actually happen if we ever decided to try it out? This idea has actually been around for quite some time. A meteorologist named Jack W. Reed suggested nuking hurricanes to destroy them as early as 1959. Reed noted that every time a hydrogen bomb exploded they would lift an enormous column of air up to 20miles high into the sky afterwards. With this in mind, he speculated that a submarine armed with nuclear weapons could travel underwater through a hurricane and into the eye of the storm. Once inside the eye the submarine would launch would multiple nuclear missiles that would detonate at the surface. The idea was that most of the warm air inside of the eye would be blasted out above the storm while cold and dense air would fill in and replace it.
B1 hurricane nuclear caused submarine reed eye What Happens If You Drop a Nuclear Bomb Into a Hurricane? 6 2 林宜悉 posted on 2020/10/23 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary