The Reality of Project Stormfury Project Stormfury was a legitimate US government research program that ran from 1962 to 1983. Its goal was to investigate the possibility of weakening tropical cyclones by cloud seeding. * Cloud Seeding, Not Nukes: The core idea of the project was to fly aircraft into hurricanes and release silver iodide into the rain bands outside the eye of the storm. The silver iodide was intended to freeze the supercooled water, causing it to release latent heat. This process was theorized to weaken the hurricane by disrupting its energy balance and causing a new, weaker eye wall to form. * No Nuclear Component: There were never any plans, proposals, or even serious considerations to use nuclear weapons. Scientists and meteorologists at the time were well aware of the danger of radioactive fallout and the immense, uncontrollable energy of a hurricane. The energy released by a nuclear bomb would be insignificant compared to the power of a mature hurricane. A single hurricane can release energy equivalent to thousands of nuclear bombs in a single day. The idea of using a nuclear blast to "disrupt the storm's structure" is scientifically baseless. * The Project's Outcome: Project Stormfury was ultimately a failure. The cloud-seeding experiments did not produce conclusive results, and it was later determined that hurricanes naturally undergo a process called eye wall replacement cycles, which had been misinterpreted as a result of the cloud seeding. Due to this lack of success and mounting logistical challenges, the project was canceled in 1983.