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> “A-blasts will mine ore now inaccessible, and recover oil locked in shale. Subterranean atomic bombs will drive electric power plants. Underground reservoirs
by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> “A-blasts will mine ore now inaccessible, and recover oil locked in shale. Subterranean atomic bombs will drive electric power plants. Underground reservoirs dug with nuclear bombs will make deserts bloom. And the atom’s might power will make child’s play of colossal earth-moving feats, to dig harbors, dredge channels, and build great canals.”
How exactly is the State not evil?
There are/were Aboriginal/Indigenous [1] people there for millennia and they knew that, then again that didn't stop them from destroying the lives of the People of the Marshall Islands [2], either with this headlong pursuit to use this technology if given the chance.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Natives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Natives
2: https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/ https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-te...
- Gibbon1 6y agoWell to the credit of the US and USSR they did get stopped eventually. Total madness while it lasted though.