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Originally Posted by LuckyGem
I'm no expert but didn't they use dynamite to stop that gusher in the film, "There Will Be Blood"?
They use explosives on the surface to put out well fires by eliminating the available oxygen, this would do what for a leak 5,000 feet deep on the sea floor?
You folks are forgetting about the nuclear treaty Obama just played out! It spells out that we (USA) will not use nuks unless... If the USA uses a nuk to stop the leak then the treaty will be broken. It has no room for "constructive" uses of nuks, just that we won't use them unless...
Its this void in the treaty that has some theorist believing the well was attacked by a N.Korean sub.
Bottom line is, if we use a nuk to stop the leak the nuk treaty is broken and N.Korea has a reason to use theirs. (this may not be a fact but only how I understand it, anyone else know any better??)
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Government and private nuclear experts agreed that using a nuclear bomb would be not only risky technically, with unknown and possibly disastrous consequences from radiation, but also unwise geopolitically — it would violate arms treaties that the United States has signed and championed over the decades and do so at a time when President Obama is pushing for global nuclear disarmament.
Where the Russians did that was in the Arctic, not a lot of people live there.
This is a highly populated gulf coast, and the only thing worse than oil, is radioactive oil.
I am just wondering, what little support there may be for this idea, could it be primarily from RWers? Are those nukes just burning a hole in their pocket? After all, what good is a nuke, if you don't use it?
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