Some good news from the Gulf?

Phew! US Has No Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons to Stop the Gulf Gusher

You've probably heard the lunatic proposition floating around the web that the last resort option in stopping the oil gushing out of the the sunken Deepwater Horizon is to deploy some variety of nuclear weapon to blast the leak out of existence. Thankfully, according to a New York Times report, the US government has no plans to act on what one senior official described as a "crazy" plan:

Stephanie Mueller, a spokeswoman for the Energy Department, said that neither Energy Secretary Steven Chu nor anyone else was thinking about a nuclear blast under the gulf. The nuclear option was not -- and never had been -- on the table, federal officials said.

There were others thinking it! Let's hope it is the last time we hear of the nuke option.