Charles_in_Charge on Nostr: I remember reading somewhere that after WW II, there were plans to make a bigger, ...

I remember reading somewhere that after WW II, there were plans to make a bigger, deeper canal in Panama north of the original one. The kicker is they were going to do it by setting off a chain of buried atomic bombs - literally blast a channel across the isthmus in one go with fucking nuclear bombs. Luckily (or unfortunately) someone did an environmental assessment and concluded it would permanently kill all marine life in the Gulf of Mexico, they they shelved the plan.