That's right, there was an actual completely serious plan to bomb the hell out of a desert to make it more livable. The long story short version is that there's a depression in the desert that is 34 miles from the ocean so being a perfectly logical person, there was a proposition to nuke a line to the depression and create a lake several years ago. I can only imagine the conversation. Egypt: sorry digging a river would just be too costly. Construction team: but nuking it would save time and money. Egypt: what!? Construction team: what? Egypt: Just don't...