According to the telegraph, the United States and New Zealand conducted covert tests of an underwater super-bomb to create a tsunami.
Tests were carried out in the waters around New Caledonia and Auckland during World War II and showed that such a weapon, in principle, could be created and it would achieve its goal. A series of 10 large sea explosions could potentially create a 33-foot tsunami that could flood a small city.
During a top-secret operation codenamed "Project Seal," an "apocalyptic device" was tested as a possible rival to a nuclear bomb. About 3,700 bombs were detonated during testing, first in New Caledonia and then on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, near Auckland.
The light on these plans was shed by the research of New Zealand-based author and filmmaker Ray Waru, who studied war material in the National Archives.
“Most likely, if the atomic bomb had not been created as we know it today, perhaps we would have become human 'victims of the tsunami,'” said Mr. Varu.
“It was absolutely amazing. First, someone came up with the idea of developing weapons of mass destruction based on the tsunami … there was New Zealand … and it seems that the operation ended successfully - it reached the stage when the new weapon was able to achieve its goal. “The project was launched in June 1944 according to the US naval officer, EA Gibson. Blasting operations were carried out to clean up the coral reefs around the Pacific Islands. Sometimes there was such a big wave that no one doubted the possibility of creating a "tsunami bomb".
Mr. Varu said the first tests were positive, but the project was eventually shelved in early 1945. Although New Zealand authorities continued to file reports of experiments, as early as the 1950s. The experts concluded that one powerful explosion was not enough, and that the tsunami would require about 2 million kilograms of explosives lined up about five miles offshore.
