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Re:Hundreds of nuclear blast videos show explosions in the o... by JackCh on Thursday July 05, 2018 @09:38PM (#17468306)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

Among other things, they were investigating the use of nuclear bombs to create artificial harbors (probably a lot more feasible than digging a canal across Mexico, but it sure would make one hell of a mess.)

The Soviets had their own version of this program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_Nat...

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Re:Hundreds of nuclear blast videos show explosions in the o... by King-Aaron on Friday July 06, 2018 @02:12AM (#17469318)
Interestingly, the plan to create harbours using nuclear detonations was seriously considered by Lang Hancock (The mining magnate) in Australia during the 70's, as well as a method for extracting Iron Ore...

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3533473.htm

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