> Obviously, using atomic weapons to dig a hole for an infrastructure project is profoundly stupid. It can be used to plug holes too. There's an old video that

> Obviously, using atomic weapons to dig a hole for an infrastructure project is profoundly stupid. It can be used to plug holes too. There's an old video that made the rounds back when BP caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster, showing how the Soviet Union used nukes to successfully control a years-long gas well blowout in the Pamuk field. IIRC there was serious consideration of using a similar technique to plug the botched Macondo well as a last resort, if conventional measures failed.