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original headline: "The US had a plan in the 1960s to blast an alternative Suez Canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs". Apologies for omitting the decade
by Lammy 5y ago
original headline: "The US had a plan in the 1960s to blast an alternative Suez Canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs". Apologies for omitting the decade to fit the length limit, but the other details seemed more important.
- tsegratis 5y agoAnd I complain about our current government... Let us give thanks for all those things that never were !
- Firerouge 5y agoThe date is almost certainly a more useful piece of information than the amount of explosives to be used. Without the date, someone could mistake this for news about a modern plan, especially following the fairly recent Suez issue
- Lammy 5y agoI dunno, I thought 520 nuclear blasts was a pretty vivid mental image :) That sort of thing could only ever fly in a pre-1980s world anyway, not something anyone would seriously propose these days.
- Firerouge 5y ago>>That sort of thing could only ever fly in a pre-1980s world anyway, not something anyone would seriously propose these days. You'd think, but nuking hurricanes somehow briefly became a topic during the last US presidential election.
- Lammy 5y agoThey were into that back in the '60s too. Check out Project STORMFURY: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/730016.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/730016.pdf