I heard it discussed all over the radio today, so it is almost on the verge of being main stream. I think you are going to lose the bet. Unfortunately, we all will lose.
Much of the enthusiasm for an atomic approach is based on reports that the Soviet Union succeeded in using nuclear blasts to seal off gas wells. Milo D. Nordyke, in a 2000 technical paper for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., described five Soviet blasts from 1966 to 1981.
