America used to destroy mountains and build schools thanks to atomic bombs

The recently revealed confidential information shows that the US federal government in the 1960s planned to use 23 atomic bombs to blow away the California mountains to clear railroad construction. and new highways.

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The plan was once considered safe by American scientists at the time. It is one of more than 20 ideas that arise at the peak of the atomic age, under the program Operation Plowshares - an attempt to capitalize on the terrifying destructive power of nuclear weapons for civilian purposes. the.

Other ideas include the use of five bombs to excavate a harbor in the northern slope of Alaska, to replace the Panama Canal through Nicaragua as well as using underground explosions to release oil from sandstone. Fuel storage in Canada.

During this period, engineers are testing the limits of nuclear repulsion, through projects on yachts, ferries, warships, aircraft or nuclear-powered cars. Ford even designed a car called Nucleon , equipped with a nuclear reactor.

In total, Operation Plowshares spent nearly $ 250 million to research the use of nuclear weapons for civilian purposes between 1959 and 1971. The program also carried out 27 Nuclear test in that period.

According to Gizmodo, the project Carryall with the use of 23 atomic bombs to clear the ground to build a new railway and highway through the southern Mojave desert, was created to save the federal government 8 million dollars using conventional explosives as estimated by the US National Atomic Energy Commission in 1963.

However, the 1962 Sedan nuclear test in the US state of Nevada revealed the dangers of using and detonating nuclear weapons for civil construction, when the radioactive contamination tainted humans far away. Take the state of Iowa. The Carryall project was postponed and eventually engineers used conventional explosives to blast through the Bristol mountain range of roads.

The catastrophic disasters and incidents that followed have sparked fears about nuclear power for not only the American people, but also the world community until today. Most notable is the partial melting of a nuclear reactor that took place in the three-mile Island in the US state of Pennsylvania in 1979 and the Chernobyl atomic disaster in Ukraine in 1986.

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