In response to yesterday’s post on the onetime vogue for mining-by-nuke, a treasured commenter asked: I remember a rumor that someone proposed building an alternative to the Panama Canal (perhaps even at sea level) using nuclear explosives. Did you find any evidence of that in your research? Indeed we did! This was actually the pet […]
Entries Tagged as 'Panama'
A Shortcut for a Shortcut
October 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on A Shortcut for a Shortcut
Tags:Edward Teller·maritime·nuclear power·Panama·Panama Canal·Project Ploughshare
The Flag Racket
July 21st, 2009 · Comments Off on The Flag Racket
Once again, we’re gonna use our platform here to highly recommend The Snakehead, Patrick Radden Keefe’s non-fiction account of the 1993 Golden Venture disaster. The book would be awesome enough if it just told the tale of Sister Ping‘s rise and fall as the tsarina of human smuggling in New York’s Chinatown. But The Snakehead […]
Tags:China·crime·Golden Venture·immigration·law·Liberia·maritime·Mongolia·Panama·Patrick Radden Keefe·Sister Ping·The Snakehead