Wild, n'est-ce pas? The fantastic Bill Bryson devotes a chapter to nukes in his bestselling book "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" and spends a page discussing the experts' breathless masterplans for PNE (Peaceful Nuclear Explosions), which apparently briefly included the idea of "alter[ing] the courses of rivers in our favour (ensuring that the Danube, for instance, served only capitalist countries)" (p.179).

All atoms are relatively peaceful... Until you increase their environmental pressure and collide them with each other at ridiculous speeds...

Now, demon, nobody likes a science nerd

Technically, atoms are neither peaceful nor otherwise. They are (as far as we know) inanimate objects. They cannot possess the qualities of being peaceful or vengeful or in love or full of hate or drunk or Mexican. They are just there. In fact, I don't even think they'd care if you called them out on their bullshit--fuckin conniving, two-faced, lying, cheating assholes that they are.

The Gnome Project near Carlsbad NM is interesting to read about. Set off a bomb in a salt bed to generate medical isotopes and steam for electricity. Didn't quite go as planned (imagine that).

Related to my video on Project ORION:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Secret-Government-Project-For-Thermonuclear-Spacecraft

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