The Soviet plan to reverse Siberia’s rivers with ‘peaceful nuclear explosions’

Andrei Fadeev Nuclear Lake, near Russia's Ural Mountains, on a calm day (Credit: Andrei Fadeev)Andrei Fadeev

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. The project was a grand failure – but 50 years on, the idea still won’t completely go away.

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