New Zealand and U. S. Were Planning a Tsunami Weapon

From the Dec. 31, 2012, News.com.au by AFP.

A new book discusses a joint United States-New Zealand project launched in June 1944.  A US Naval officers had noticed that blasting operations to clear coral reefs sometimes produced a huge wave.

A test was carried out north of Auckland led scientists to believe that a series of ten massive blasts offshore could produce a ten-metre tsunami capable of inundating a small coastal city.

The project was shelved in early 1945 despite success on some small-scale tests.

Of interest, back in the Civil War, Union General Benjamin Butler proposed a similar plan to destroy the Confederate Fort Fisher guarding an approach to Wilmington, NC.  A Union ship was loaded with gunpowder, run into shore near the fort and exploded. Butler thought the concussion would knock the sand fort down.  It didn't.

Waves Over You.  --GreGen