The USSR Once Tried Reversing a River's Direction with 'Peaceful Nuclear Explosions'

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union used nuclear weapons in an attempt to change the direction of running rivers in Siberia – the authorities of Moscow since then wanted to change the direction of running water to the south. The project was an example monome.

The USSR Once Tried Reversing a River's Direction with 'Peaceful Nuclear Explosions'

"In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural route north..." remembers the BBC. [T]he Soviet Union simultaneously fired three nuclear devices buried 127m (417ft) underground. The yield of each device was 15 kilotonnes (about the same as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945). The experiment, codenamed "Taiga", was part of a two-decade long Soviet programme of…