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From: Dave Garland
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 22:13

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On 7/15/2018 12:45 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
> On 15 Jul 2018 15:26:00 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote:
> 
>> On 2018-07-15, JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 15 Jul 2018 07:20:32 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2018-07-14, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2018-07-14, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>> to be supplied by atomic bombs. What wcould go wrong?.. Luckily, the
>>>> project was scapped. (I believe there is a proposal to bring water
>>> >from the Red Sea at Aquaba to replenish the Dead  Sea.)
>>>
>>> The Soviets did, in some of their dsatellite countries, make canals
>>> using atomic devices. The people living there are still having to deal
>>> with the left over radiation.
>>
>>
>> Cite?
> 
> They didn't actually "make canals" but they did perform some
> experiments to determine if it was feasible.  A lot of details in
> <https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/osti/408695.pdf>.  There is
> also a wikipedia entry
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_National_Economy>.
> 
> It is not clear who would be "having to deal with the leftover
> radiation"--there wasn't a lot released from the canal testing and it
> was a long time ago.
> 
> There were other tests of peaceful uses of nuclear weapons that did
> not go so well.
> 

The Soviets weren't the only ones. On the US side, it was called 
"Project Plowshare". Building canals (or widening the Panama Canal) 
were indeed proposed, along with making a harbor in Alaska, making a 
roadcut through the mountains in California, mining and/or creating 
underground caverns for oil/gas storage, (what is now called) fraccing 
for natural gas, There were 27 US test explosions (the last in the 
1970s), and no successful projects.

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