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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at some of the non-military plans for nuclear weapons that were thought up by either the United States or the Soviet Union. And sometimes by both! From digging harbours and canals to propelling spacecraft to simply flexing their muscles, nuclear explosions were envisioned as a means to save the world. Communist Girl Scouts of America: https://youtu.be/QvgEHc0iyoQ ASALA, Armenia Secret Army: https://youtu.be/DFzIVfTNjH0 Amchitka Island Nuclear Test: https://youtu.be/Z89YnSS5RQA Soviet Criminal Underworld: https://youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc Project Iceworm: Nukes Under the Ice: https://youtu.be/ePT8gp0LKsk Haiti and the Dominican Republic: https://youtu.be/apgYxvtDFQY Red Army Faction: https://youtu.be/wgYfTQJYCkI Colonial Indochina to 1945: https://youtu.be/uijOG8oYHgo First Indochina War pt. 1 GUERILLA: https://youtu.be/V9wSqx0W8h0 First Indochina War pt. 2 INTERNATIONALIZATION: https://youtu.be/58PAc7zAtSg Alcohol Prohibition in the USSR https://youtu.be/kyPdGderIxk Cocaine and Cartels: https://youtu.be/A9VA51N-Ug4 International Terrorism: https://youtu.be/VqHMjA35aLM Liberation Theology: https://youtu.be/Dfu2I_LTKt4 Iranian Nuclear Program: https://youtu.be/ZrNNeS31lNg The School of the Americas: https://youtu.be/3tYwj-7b_jU Birth of the Military Industrial Complex: https://youtu.be/8glmBbBENlk America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY How the American Political Parties Switched Their Ideologies https://youtu.be/SdcreXEWzG0 How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #nuclear #nuclearpower #ProjectA119 #moon #lunar #plowshare #UnitedStates #Soviet #SovietUnion #USSR **SOURCES** https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/may/14/spaceexploration.theobserver https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/non-power-nuclear-applications/industry/peaceful-nuclear-explosions https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0605fobs https://st.llnl.gov/news/look-back/plowshare-program https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/were-going-to-work-miracles https://www.energy.gov/lm/articles/chariot-alaska-site-fact-sheet https://dec.alaska.gov/Applications/SPAR/PublicMVC/CSP/SiteReport/1649 https://www.uaf.edu/centennial/uaf100/ideas/project-chariot.php https://themountainsarecalling.earth/the-sedan-crater https://www.atomicarchive.com/history/cold-war/page-17.html