Finally an attempt to stop the US president from nuking a hurricane
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
24 June 2020
Josie Ford
Full of hot air
Feedback tries insofar as possible to steer clear of politics, but occasionally we find ourselves sailing a little close to the wind. Never more so, perhaps, than this week, as we report on the story that a US member of Congress has proposed a bill to ban the president from using a nuclear weapon against a hurricane.
You may feel that such a bill is unnecessary. That it ranks for senselessness alongside such theoretical bits of legislation as “Law to Prevent the President From Hitting Their Head Repeatedly Against the Sharp End of a Pencil” or…
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