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The Soviet plan to reverse Siberia's rivers with 'peaceful nuclear explosions'

• artninja1988 1y ago
  Saw
• FridayoLeary 1y ago
  That's not the only madcap soviet project to use nuclear bombs. https://interestingengineering.com/science/soviet-engineers-detonated-a-nuke-miles-underground-to-put-out-a-gas-well-fire https://interestingengineering.com/science/soviet-engineers-... The URL says it all. Remarkably it was actually a success, and they did this more then once!
• LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
  Yes? The other players planned no less. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoms_for_Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoms_for_Peace and everything linked from there.