Some ideas never die as talk of a Bering Strait tunnel returns
A Russian proposal to build a “Putin-Trump tunnel” under the Bering Strait is just the latest plan for a rail link between Russia and Alaska. From Gilded Age visionaries to Cold War schemers to today’s Kremlin envoys, the idea of physically linking Asia and North America across the Arctic passage keeps resurfacing — usually with eye-popping price tags and even bigger geopolitical caveats.
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