Washington: US President Donald Trump has suggested multiple times to senior Homeland Security and national security officials that they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the country, a media report said.
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According to the report by American news outlet Axios, during one hurricane briefing at the White House, Trump said: “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?”
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“They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they’re moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can’t we do that?” a source present at the briefing told Axios quoting the President as saying
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Asked how the briefer reacted, the source recalled he said something to the effect of, “we’ll look into that”.
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Trump replied by asking incredulously how many hurricanes the US could handle and reiterating his suggestion that the government should intervene before they make landfall.
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The briefer “was knocked back on his heels”, the source said, adding “People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, ‘What do we do with this?’.”
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Trump also raised the idea in another conversation with a senior administration official.
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A 2017 National Security Council (NSC) memo describes that second conversation, in which Trump asked whether the administration should bomb hurricanes to stop them from hitting the homeland.
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A source briefed on the NSC memo told Axios that it does not contain the word “nuclear”, but it just says that the President talked about bombing hurricanes.
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Regarding the development, a senior administration told the news outlet on Sunday: “We don’t comment on private discussions that the president may or may not have had with his national security team.”
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The ongoing 2019 Atlantic Hurricane season in the US that officially began on June 1, will end on November 30.
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Hurricane Barry made landfall in the state of Louisiana in July. This was the first hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season.
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