Where is the Soviet Union when you need it?

This video shows how the Soviets plugged a natural gas leak using a nuclear detonation. Yes, that's right, a nuclear blast. Think we might have a few spare nuclear warheads sitting around? Maybe we could even have the chairman of BP set the bloody thing off manually. :-)

I'd love to see what the Sierra Club would have to say about it...

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