WE CAN BEAT JAPAN, MR PRESIDENT! WE CAN BEAT THEM WITH SCIENCE! AND VOLCANOES!

[defrog]

ITEM [via Pink Tentacle]: Popular Science has put its entire 137-year archive online – including an article by an eminent geologist who proposed bombing Japan’s volcanoes as a strategy for winning the war.

Given Japan’s seismic instability and the explosive nature of volcanoes, dropping bombs into volcanic craters might, in the words of the author, “cause such a vomiting of lava and ash as to hasten the day of unconditional surrender.”

And you laughed when Hugo Chavez said the US had the technology to build earthquake weapons.

Hot lava,

This is dF

Comments

[wookiemonster.livejournal.com]

At first I read "Japanese Volcanoes" as "Jalapeño Volcanoes."