This 1960s Comic Strip Claimed Nuclear Explosions Were the Future of Road Construction
by Matt Novak on Paleofuture, shared by Andrew Couts from on (#4KBW0)
Nuclear weapons can wipe out an entire city in the blink of an eye, but what about all the good they can do? That was the pitch from this 1965 comic strip that extolled the virtues of nuclear bombs to build everything from highways to a "second Panama canal."