UK once plotted how to blow up Channel Tunnel with a NUKE

Previously top secret papers have revealed the extraordinary back up plan drawn up while plans for the Tunnel between Kent and Calais were in their infancy.

The scheme was kept a secret from France and admitted there was a risk of collateral damage in Kent.

But it was seen as a ‘100 per cent effective’ way of destroying the tunnel permanently and ensuring it could not be used by a rampaging Soviet army.

The revelation of the plan puts into historical context criticism of Theresa May for planning to severe Britain’s link with the EU via a ‘hard’ Brexit.

Fears over the risk of military invasion of Britain via a tunnel from France stalled the idea of building a link for decades.

The top secret memo, revealed by the Independent, was drawn up in 1969 by Ministry of Defence officials advising the Department for Transport on the possibilities of explosive demolition.

Source: UK once plotted how to blow up Channel Tunnel with a NUKE | Daily Mail Online