Let's Nuke it!

[angrychair]

Instead of fighting over a 21 mile bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detentions and you've got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks. - Written by Newt Gingrich on Twitter

I cannot even express how completely insane this is and how it makes absolutely no sense at all.
I mean are these these the radiation free nukes I have heard nothing about? Do nuclear devices only explode in straight, predictable lines now?

I mean I'm absolutely not an expert, not a civil engineer but this seems like a very bad idea.

Reference:

Not great

— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) 2026-03-15T22:17:00.201Z

[Renew Deal]

1. But how will we stop the hurricanes if we use all the nukes for this?

[Aussie105]

2. Bonus!

All the ships and the products that come down that new channel will glow in the dark!

Did Newt actually say that?

If he did, is he having a Senior Moment?

He is 82, which may put him in the Donald Trump Twilight Zone.

[angrychair]

5. It was originally committed on

By someone else and then by Molly. I don't have a Twitter account anymore so I am not sure about that. No major news services are carrying it but I posted it because Molly Jong-Fast responded to it so assuming it's legit.

[dalton99a]

3. Dr Gingrich forgot to mention an important benefit: Free radiation treatment for cancer patients in the area.

100% free, and fast. Kills everything

[OC375]

4. And that's when the asteroids come for us

[malaise]

6. Turns out that everything we have said and thought about these racist

monsters who have not one shred of decency, humanity or willingness to adhere to the rule of law at home or international law underestimated the actual depth of their levels of depravity.
But they all love their Jebus. What utter farce.

[Xavier Breath]

7. Horseshoes, hand grenades and thermonuclear detonations.

[2naSalit]

8. Why is...

That rat bastard still wasting good air?

[lame54]

9. Very bad idea?...

That's Trump's wheelhouse

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. Someone is feeling irrelevant and needing some attention. Nt

[Jerry2144]

11. We tested doing that in the 60s

Sedan Crater in Nevada was to create a new harbor in milliseconds. Another test did a series of shots to dig a channel. They work. The dirt got moved. Radiation levels would be next to nothing once it floods with water. Just don’t eat the seafood there. And don’t build beachfront property and live there

[NickB79]

12. This is just Project Plowshare resurrected from the 50's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

It was insane then, and insane now.

[SonOfNebanaube]

13. Project Plowshare

Still a bad idea.