The nation considered using nuclear weapons to carve out canals in both those regions.
The document called for the"use of nuclear explosives for excavation of Dead Sea canal across the Negev desert."The memorandum noted that an"interesting application of nuclear excavation would be a sea-level canal 160 miles long across Israel." It further stated that traditional methods of excavation would be"prohibitively expensive" adding that"it appears that nuclear explosives could be profitably applied to this situation.
It concluded that the development of"such a canal would be a strategically valuable alternative to the present Suez Canal and would probably contribute greatly to economic development." This would have been very true in March of 2022 whenof the Suez Canal effectively stopping all traffic and leading to delays that cost business owners significant amounts of money.
The document was produced by the U.S. Department of Energy-backed Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and described in detail a route that spanned across the Negev desert in Israel, connecting the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aqaba, offering a route to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. That route said the document consisted of"virtually unpopulated desert wasteland" that was"thus amenable to nuclear excavation methods." And this wasn't the only canal the Americans were thinking of building through the use of nuclear bombs,
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