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January 3, 2013

By Patrick Goodenough

(CNSNews.com) – The revelation that the United States and New Zealand carried out “tsunami bomb” tests during World War II, first made public 14 years ago when secret documents were declassified, is making headlines again after a researcher dug up more archived material. Thousands of bombs were dropped and their effects monitored in tests around New Caledonia – then an important Allied base, now a special-status French territory – and near Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city.The aim of the project, in the dry language of the archived documents, was

“the investigation of the potentialities of inundation by means of artificially produced tidal waves for offensive purposes”

– in other words, to see whether a bomb or series of bombs could generate a tsunami capable of wreaking havoc on an enemy coastal city.

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“Presumably if the atomic bomb had not worked as well as it did,we might have been tsunami-ing people,” said Mr Waru. “It was absolutely astonishing. First that anyone would come up with the idea of developing a weapon of mass destruction based on a tsunami…and also that New Zealand seems to have successfully developed it to the degree that it might have worked.” Launched in June 1944, the project was inspired by  US navail officer EA Gibson’s observation that blasting operations to clear coastal reefs around Pacific islands sometimes product a large wave, raising the possibility of creating a “tsunami bomb.”

Mr Waru said the initial testing proved the theory.  New Zealand authorities continued to produce reports on the experiments into the 1950s. Experts decided that single explosions were not powerful enough to create a successful tsunami bomb, and that 2 million kilograms of explosive arrayed in a line about five miles from-shore. ”

The US and New Zealand had dramatic breakdowns in their relationships into the 1980s, as New Zealand refused to allow entry of nuclear-armed ships. The US downgraded its relationship with New Zealand from “ally” to a “friend.”