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Use of hydrogen bombs to create lake - telex report about BBC program
The programme in an item on nuclear explosion featured Dr. Gerald Johnson, Associate Director of Project Ploughshare, controlled by the American Atomic Energy Commission, who described plans to build a new Panama Canal by nuclear explosion.
DEREK COOPER: [underlined]
….. And at present Australia is deciding whether to buy three 10 megaton hydrogen bombs from the States at £300,000 each to make a 4 ½ square mile 400 yard deep lake in Queensland. It would irrigate 300,000 acres and provide invaluable experience for the future about this method of large scale digging.
