Somewhat related: Back in the 1950’s, Edward Teller wanted to built boat harbors on the remote Alaskan coast with nuclear bombs. They called it Project Chariot. He was quoted as saying, “If you have a mountain you need moved, give us a call.” Thankfully it did not happen.
They also thought about using nuclear bombs as propulsion for rockets in the space program, called Project Orion.
Thank God that never went anywhere.
I think Teller was the one who came up with the idea of the “Thunder well”. Basically it was a potential means of launching payloads into space with nukes in a mine shaft. (Kinda like a big gun)