In the 1960s, the U.S. government seriously considered using nuclear bombs to carve a new sea-level canal through Panama.

The plan would have required evacuating 30,000 people and detonating the equivalent of 166 million tons of TNT 🧨

https://theconversation.com/bypass-the-strait-of-hormuz-with-nuclear-explosives-the-us-studied-that-in-panama-and-colombia-in-the-1960s-278851

https://theconversation.com/bypass-the-strait-of-hormuz-with-nuclear-explosives-the-us-studied-that-in-panama-and-colombia-in-the-1960s-278851