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There have been tests to accelerate the breakup or melting of icebergs with bombs, and it has been found to be ineffective and expensive even for much smaller icebergs: https://navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=iipIsItPracticalToDestroyI...

That's unfortunate. I liked the elegance of such a brutish potential solution.

I know this definitely sounds dumb and juvenile, but I genuinely wish more problems could be solved with bombs.

Surely you’re familiar with the exploding whale story, but if not:

Or Project Plowshare