The Cold War - The Nature of Risk | 4
American History Tellers
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The History of Project Plow Share
Project plow share was a series of planned civil engineering projects based on atomic explosions. The project took its name from biblical verse the first half of Isaiah 2 4 reads They shall beat their swords into plow shares and their spears into pruning hooks In other words atoms for peace Project plow share's champions proposed using nuclear weapons to build a new harbor in Alaska speed up construction of i40 in california And even build a new panamok now From today's perspective it's hard to take any of this seriously.
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