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The idea for a tunnel, first proposed over one hundred years ago, was again championed by UPF Founder Dr. Sun Myung Moon during his UPF Peace Tours of 2005 and 2006 as a way to bring peace by breaking through cultural and religious boundaries as well as geographic and political divisions.

A project of this size could only move forward as part of a combined international effort of will, and for several years the USA and Russia, as well as Europe and China, have been preoccupied with other issues, including the current world economic crisis. Yet, as Dr. Moon pointed out in 2005, the costs of building a tunnel – estimated at around $200bn – are really quite small compared to the costs of all the conflicts in the world, which run into trillions. [For an April 9, 2012 article in the Moscow Times about a Bering Strait crossing, click here.]

While the Internet links people the world over on an information super-highway, there is no highway with bridges and tunnels to connect all the continents. An international transportation system could draw together people of all races, cultures, religions, and nationalities in one peaceful and prosperous global community. With advances in technology, engineers have been studying the feasibility of a tunnel under the 85km Bering Strait. Visionaries and pragmatists alike are excited by the potential for easier exchanges of people and goods between Asia and the Americas.

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