clutchcargo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:48 pm Bit of related trivia..

The US had a plan in the 1960s to blast an alternative Suez Canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs



The US considered a proposal to use 520 nuclear bombs to carve out an alternative to the Suez Canal though Israel in the 1960s, according to a declassified memorandum. The plan never came to fruition, but having an alternative waterway to the Suez Canal could have been useful today, with a cargo ship stuck in the narrow path and blocking one of the world’s most vital shipping routes.

According to the 1963 memorandum, which was declassified in 1996, the plan would have relied on 520 nuclear bombs to carve out the waterway. The memo called for the “use of nuclear explosives for excavation of Dead Sea canal across the Negev desert.”

Full: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/us-p ... 60s-2021-3

Pseudonomdeplume wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:37 pm I'm not complaining.
I went heavy on oil and energy after last year's sell off, and the sector has easily out-performed every other sector, this year. It's even beat the index itself.
It's definitely a short-term investment and I expect to roll in the near future, but this has me hanging in there a bit longer.