The World's Biggest Bomb
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If you ever get there, Las Vegas has the national atomic testing museum. If you have any interest in the history of the devices, and the history of the testing range, principally in Nevada, well worth a visit. It is actually run by the Smithsonian as an annex, IIRC. I found particularly interesting the methods used to work out yields, signatures of the components and some of the uses for nuclear devices that were put forward.
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Like the plan to dig a sea-level shipping canal across Nicaragua or Panama using "nuclear devices" exploded underground to create a connected series of pits (lakes)?
This 1967 magazine article has some discussion in the plans; The Rotarian - Google Books
More here: Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America - Scott Kaufman - Google Books
This 1967 magazine article has some discussion in the plans; The Rotarian - Google Books
More here: Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America - Scott Kaufman - Google Books
