The federal government should attempt to prevent tropical storms and hurricanes by experimenting with dissolving or destroying them before they approach the United States mainland.
With the expertise possessed by NASA and the U.S. military, there should be an experiment to destroy the storms while they are in the open waters between Africa and the Caribbean.
Some form of ordnance - bomb or explosive, not atomic or nuclear - should be dropped, placed or shot into the eye of the storm to alter its direction and intensity.
With the United States' ability to launch rockets and missiles into outer space, land on the moon, and send unmanned missions to Mars and the outer reaches of the solar system, it should be very easy to place an explosive device into the center of a moving tropical storm or hurricane to blow it apart and destroy it.
We could name this effort Operation Hurricane Wars.
With the cost of superstorm Sandy in the tens of billions of dollars, and most likely higher, plus the emotional hardships, the government should experiment with such a project to attempt to eliminate the problem storms before they damage our communities.
Based upon the calculated total losses, it would be well worth the attempt and any monies spent in doing so.
Robert A. Kortenhaus