From an old Vox
feature of maps and plans that never came about:
North American Water and Power Alliance
Alaska is too cold to be of much use to farmers, and much of
America's warm, sunny landscape is on the dry side. In the 1950s, the US
Army Corps of Engineers devised the only sensible solution — use
"peaceful" nuclear explosions to divert several Alaskan rivers through
the Rocky Mountain Trench into the Colorado and Yellowstone rivers,
whence the extra water flow could be used to further bolster irrigation
projects in the American southwest. The cost of the project was thought
to be comparable in scope to the original construction of the Interstate
Highway System, with the complicating factor that it would also require
the cooperation of the Canadian government.
Geez, nuclear weapons caused scientists and engineers to dream up some pretty crazy ideas. Thank God they didn't follow through on this lunatic shit.
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