How many nukes would it take to disrupt a hurricane?

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long story short: a nuke (even many) has only a tiny fraction of the power of a hurricane, so if you nuked a hurricane, not only would it have very little-to-no effect, now you’d have a hurricane full of deadly radiation contaminating everything it came into contact with.

Sounds like an interesting yet terrifying concept for a novel 🤔

5 minute short online video, youtube/any fediverse alternative.

Open: massive fucking hurricane.

Scene 2: officials standing around talking about it. One guy gets an idea. Let's nuke it.

Scene 3: nuke viciously detonates dead centre of hurricane on ground.

Scene 4: hurricane turns orange. Narrator exclaims: "Well, that fucked it"

End