President Donald Trump has suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from causing damage to the US, Axios reported on Sunday.
The report said that the president suggested the idea on multiple occasions to senior officials at the Department of Homeland Security and other national security officials.
One source present at a hurricane briefing at the White House at an unspecified date told Axios that Trump suggested something along the lines of: "I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them? 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?"
Trump reportedly suggested using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from striking the US
The report said that the president suggested the idea on multiple occasions to senior officials at the Department of Homeland Security and other national security officials.
One source present at a hurricane briefing at the White House at an unspecified date told Axios that Trump suggested something along the lines of: "I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them? 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?"
Trump reportedly suggested using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from striking the US
