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to help with hurricane disaster relief across the United States and elsewhere.

Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons are some of the most

destructive natural disasters that occur on our planet.

Hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused over 105 billion dollars in damages

and hurricane Sandy in 2012 caused over 74 billion dollars in damages.

The amount of damage caused in North America and the Carribean by this most recent

hurricane season in 2017 will likely be unprecedented.

But what if there is a way to destroy a hurricane

before it could actually make landfall and cause any damage?

Various theories have been proposed throughout history

of ways to do this but perhaps the most outlandish idea

is to fire nuclear weapons into a hurricane.

So would this actually work?

And what would actually happen if we ever decided to try it out?

This idea has actually been around for quite some time.

A meteorologist named Jack W. Reed suggested nuking hurricanes to destroy them as early as 1959.

Reed noted that every time a hydrogen bomb exploded

they would lift an enormous column of air

up to 20miles high into the sky afterwards.

With this in mind, he speculated that a submarine

armed with nuclear weapons could travel underwater

through a hurricane and into the eye of the storm.

Once inside the eye the submarine would launch would multiple nuclear missiles that would detonate

at the surface.

The idea was that most of the warm air inside of the eye

would be blasted out above the storm

while cold and dense air would fill in and replace it.