Steve HermanIn response to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, former House Speaker New Gingrich calls for a “dozen thermonuclear detonations” to create “a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks.”
Andrew Dalke@newsguyusa a "dozen" seems far too few.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare - "A project proposed in a 1963 memorandum by [LLNL] would have used 520 2-megaton nuclear explosions to excavate a canal through the Negev Desert ... as an alternative route to the Suez Canal."
https://www.osti.gov/opennet/servlets/purl/453701.pdf has a device spacing of 1300 feet for 2MT bombs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pechora%E2%80%93Kama_Canal says "potentially several hundreds of nuclear charges" for ~40km.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Carryall proposed 22 devices for a ~2 mile cut.
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