SOVIET PLAN TO WARM UP THE ARCTIC SEA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00970A000100040034-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2009
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: December 16, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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Chief, Geophysics Branch,, OZ
r 3,955 gineser olonel &leksandr B.
Power 1 gineering Institute imeni Krahizhanovskiy,
sus 2919= proposed a program for the tranefor -
,on of the frozen north of Asia, North America,
areas with a telexate climate by maa.: s of pumping s
the Pacific Ocean into the Arctic Ocean.
a huge dam be built across the 36-mils, Bering 'Strait. ftndreds o
pumps are to be placed along the dam, which would be powered by a
2#000# 00-kilowatt power station.
2. The following quotation is made from the Martin moposal. "Bach
urrent would care as such warmth into the Arctic Ocean
used from ten billion tons of oil. This would greatly mo ra,
climate in the Arctic ame. Furt r re, by se ping the no to
Siberian anti-fie and eliminating the great masses of cold Arctic
uld free not only Asia and orth America, but also a part of
gid breath of the Arctic.
.d be something Like discovering new continents with a
mild European climate and we derfu natural resources. What is now a
barren and frozen wilderness would blossom with fields and orchards and
sparkle with triads of electric lights. Thousands of now totes would
spring v."
ested by the s
author involves the reshaping of ocean bottoms and land surfaces. The
thought is that parts of the v=girth would be erupted by man-made eruptions
inside the earth's crust. This disturbance would create now lands and
,es which in turf would change water and air cc
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