Such has happened repeatedly with this president, as with his complaint about “shithole countries” sending their tired, poor, yearning to be free to American ports.īut in this case, unknowingly or not, Trump touches on a different tradition of unleashed imagination. This was leaked by an anonymous official present at the creation who clearly was unable to keep this searing ember of inspiration inside themselves.
I‘m referring, of course, to Donald Trump’s suggestion, when briefed about the threat of Hurricane Dorian, that America use nuclear weapons to stop such storms before they traverse the Atlantic and attack our shores. Namely, reflection on how such an idea could possibly have emerged, not least from the most powerful man on planet Earth. But like other concepts that begin in the wilds of WTF, it begs for its opposite.
I’m quite sure there were many others who did too, worldwide. Scott Montgomery explores “nuclear engineering” or, put another way, the strange history of attempts to use nuclear weapons for good ends.
