US President Donald Trump has suggested dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes before they hit US territory, the American news website Axios reported . According to the publication, Trump asked at a hurricane meeting if it would be possible to drop an atomic bomb to his center to prevent them from forming completely at sea.

According to an anonymous source cited by Axios, the people who attended the meeting were perplexed. The site does not specify when this meeting would have taken place. However, the idea presented by Donald Trump is not new. Already in the 1950s a scientist working for the US government suggested it in a publication under the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower . Since then, the idea has been resurfacing regularly, although there is a scientific consensus that it would not work.

According to Axios, Trump had already asked for the first time, in 2017, if his administration should bomb hurricanes to prevent them from touching the ground. In that conversation, however, the president did not mention the possible use of nuclear bombs. The White House has not wanted to comment on Axios' claims.

"The objective" of stopping hurricanes "is not bad," said a senior administration official, under the protection of anonymity, without confirming whether the president made such statements effectively.

The United States is a territory regularly hit by hurricanes. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey was the most powerful in 12 years to reach U.S. territory. Since then, the east coast of the United States has been hit by a series of catastrophic storms that have caused thousands of deaths and damages worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

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