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Word: sasardi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ploughshare pitch is the low cost of nuclear digging. If employed on a very large scale, atoms are the world's cheapest workers, and they are getting cheaper year by year. Dr. Gerald W. Johnson, scientific director of Ploughshare, believes that a sea-level canal at the Sasardi-Morti route in eastern Panama could be completed, ready for use, for $500 million, using only 170 megatons of explosive. This is hardly more than the present Panama Canal cost when it was completed 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Energy: Ploughshare Canals | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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