Via Zero Hedge, yet another call to use a mini nuke and get the leak stopped before the first hurricane spreads oil all over the southern US coastline :

The kind of bomb needed already exists in the US arsenal. Only 20 pounds of fissile material is required to build a nuke, a sphere smaller than a golf ball. Remember, uranium and plutonium are four times heavier than lead. That is small enough to ram down an oil well, with room to spare. Such a weapon, called the “Davy Crocket” was designed to be carried and operated by a single soldier, and was actually field tested in Nevada during the fifties. That was before we figured out that many of our own troops involved in such a maneuver would end up dying of cancer, so the project was shelved.

There would be no violation of the nuclear test ban treaty, since it covers only above ground tests. Underground tests ended voluntarily in 1992, mostly because they were too expensive, not because of some high minded ideal.

All of BP’s efforts to date have really been “Hail Mary’s” doomed to failure. The only real chance is to relieve the pressure by drilling several adjacent wells, and that will take months. If BP has discovered the mother of all fields with pressures so enormous, they can’t be controlled with modern technology, a possibility which some geologists admit, then more huge leaks will spring and the nuclear option will be the only one left. In the meantime, if a serious hurricane hits the region, a mathematical probability, then we will see the environmental equivalent of Chernobyl meets Katrina.

In this scenario, you can kiss BP goodbye.

The guy writing there is certainly qualified (so it seems) to make the call :

I have never been able to use my talents both as a securities analyst and a nuclear weapons designer simultaneously, but British Petroleum (BP) has at last enabled me to rise to the call.

An interesting mixture of professions but not too unusual as The Wasp is also a financial analyst and nuclear engineer (albeit power rather than weapons related) which makes it rather amusing to read of someone else doing something completely different from their initial choice!