Practice makes perfect, they say. The US has also practiced. They are not inexperienced in destroying gas lines. They’ve let a line like that go up before. However, that was a while ago. It happened in 1982, forty years ago. But it proves that the USA does not shy away from something like this. The journalist, columnist and writer Alexander Wallasch* ) reported on the destruction at the time : “Oops! … They did it again: How the CIA blew up a Russian gas pipeline in 1982.”