Well, that's reassuring.
Jun. 3rd, 2010 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randomnessToday's New York Times' Dot Earth blog post links to a New York Times report that nuking the oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is officially off the table, and includes a Soviet propaganda video showing a successful use of a nuclear explosion to seal a gas well. It also links to a Wikipedia page on the subject.
Russian Wikipedia has an entire category of pages devoted to the various nuclear detonations the USSR carried out for various non-military purposes.
To quote the report, 'Not everyone on the Internet is calling for nuking the well. Some are making jokes. “What’s worse than an oil spill?” asked a blogger on Full Comment, a blog of The National Post in Toronto. “A radioactive oil spill.”'
Russian Wikipedia has an entire category of pages devoted to the various nuclear detonations the USSR carried out for various non-military purposes.
To quote the report, 'Not everyone on the Internet is calling for nuking the well. Some are making jokes. “What’s worse than an oil spill?” asked a blogger on Full Comment, a blog of The National Post in Toronto. “A radioactive oil spill.”'