Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. The program was organized in …

The Plowshare project developed the Sedan test in order to determine the feasibility of using nuclear detonations to quickly and economically excavate large amounts of earth and rock. …

2024年9月19日 · Plowshare scientists predicted that nuclear bombs would not only create more and larger fractures in the rock, but they would also carve out enormous cavities to store that gas.

2024年8月29日 · Overshadowing Plowshare was the issue of radioactive fallout. Radioactivity from a 1954 hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean had killed one crew …

2020年9月25日 · The decision was made to test-market Plowshare with 2.4 megatons of nuclear firepower at Cape Thompson, on Alaska’s northwest shore. Project Chariot would use four 100 …

Project Gasbuggy was an underground nuclear detonation carried out by the United States Atomic Energy Commission on December 10, 1967 in rural northwestern New Mexico. It was …

the blast signals at each station could be compared to show short-term variability of atmospheric propagations caused by turbulence. Finally, results were to be scaled up to larger yields to …

The Operation Plowshare scientists hoped to learn more about the possibilities of producing and collecting isotopes while measuring heat production and seismic activity from the blast, in …

On July 6, 1962, the Sedan Event, the largest of the Project Plowshare experiments, was conducted at the Nevada Test Site. This 100-kiloton blast produced a crater approximately …

The best-known Plowshare test was the thermonuclear blast, test-named “Sedan,” in July 1962 at the Nevada Test Site near Groom Lake in the CIA’s Area 51. It shot a radioactive plume …