14 DAY TRIAL // The US East Coast is now busy dealing with hurricane Sandy and the extreme weather manifestations this Frankenstorm brought about.
Therefore, it is worth mentioning that, according to some "researchers", hurricanes could potentially be made more people-friendly by nuking them.
More precisely, this theory – which first came into being in the 1960s – states that a nuclear bomb's blast could heat up the air close to the storm's eye, thus forcing it to lose some of its strength and change its path.
Luckily for us, there were quite a few other scientists who rushed in to make minced meat of this theory, mainly because nuking a hurricane would lead to the formation of a radioactive storm whose effects would be significantly more damaging to the environment.
As Live Science explains, there is also the problem of energy. Thus, hurricanes usually release about 50 terawatts of heat energy, which is why bombing them would pretty much lead to no benefits.
According to researcher Chris Landsea, who used to work with NOAA, “Brute force interference with hurricanes doesn't seem promising.”