'Tsunami bomb' tested off New Zealand coast during WWII

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/9774217/Tsunami-bomb-tested-off-New-Zealand-coast.html

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initial testing was positive but the project was eventually shelved in early 1945, though New Zealand authorities continued to produce reports on the experiments into the 1950s.
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Interesting read, thanks for sharing.

From the article:
QuotePresumably if the atomic bomb had not worked as well as it did, we might have been tsunami-ing people," said Mr Waru.
My thoughts exactly.
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