Modern scenario planning starts with Herman Kahn. Kahn’s work on MAD (mutually assured destruction due to nuclear war) in the 1950’s led to ideas/innovations such as “duck and cover” and fallout shelters (based on his future scenarios of the world after an all-out nuclear war). Although these concepts seem a bit weird and almost bizarrely…

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Here’s a link to Pravda suggesting that the Deepwater Horizon spill could be sealed by an underwater nuclear explosion and stating that just such an intervention occurred on September 30, 1966 to extinguish a gas well fire at Urt Bulak at a depth of 6000 meters below the surface.  Not sure that the cost-benefit of this…

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