Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes...
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not include the developmental testing of any nuclear explosive. Operation Plowshare was the name of the U.S. program for the development of techniques...
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Sedan (nuclear test) (redirect from Operation Sedan)
at the Nevada National Security Site on July 6, 1962, as part of Operation Plowshare, a program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining,...
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Project Rulison (category Project Plowshare nuclear tests)
surface. It was part of the Operation Mandrel weapons test series under the name Mandrel Rulison, as well as the Operation Plowshare project which explored...
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shot was the "Sedan" shot of Operation Storax on July 6, 1962, a 104-kiloton-of-TNT (440 TJ) shot for Operation Plowshare, which sought to prove that nuclear...
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Project Chariot (redirect from Operation Chariot (1958))
detonating a string of nuclear devices. The project originated as part of Operation Plowshare, a research project to find peaceful uses for nuclear explosives...
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explosion, a nuclear explosive set off for peaceful reasons, such as Operation Plowshare Penge East railway station, London, National Rail station code PNE...
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using nuclear weapons for civilian, peaceful purposes as part of Operation Plowshare. In this instance, a 1280-feet-in-diameter and 320-feet-deep explosion...
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United States created plans for several uses of PNEs, including Operation Plowshare. Six of the explosions by the Soviet Union are considered to have...
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chief's vehicle Buggy, a U.S. nuclear test conducted under Operation Crosstie, and Operation Plowshare Buggy, a character in the animated preschool TV series...
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exploded 28 nuclear test-shots in a project called Operation Plowshare. The purpose of the operation was to use peaceful nuclear explosions for moving...
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explosions (PNEs). It was analogous to the United States program Operation Plowshare, although the Soviet one consists of 124 tests. One of the better-known...
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similar to that of Roudaire and de Lesseps was raised by members of Operation Plowshare, an American idea to use nuclear explosives in civil engineering...
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actually carried out by the United Kingdom at the NTS; four aborted tests in Operation Fishbowl; one test, Anvil/Peninsula, that jammed during lowering in its...
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for similar purposes were carried out in the United States under Operation Plowshare, but due to radioactive contamination caused by the tests, no direct...
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surface by conventional wells. The project was conceived of as part of Operation Plowshare, a United States project to harness the nuclear explosions for peaceful...
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The Plowshares movement is an anti-nuclear weapons and Christian pacifist movement that advocates active resistance to war. The group often practices a...
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Project Gasbuggy (category Project Plowshare nuclear tests)
December 10, 1967 in rural northwestern New Mexico. It was part of Operation Plowshare, a program designed to find peaceful uses for nuclear explosions...
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Gammator NS Savannah NS Otto Hahn Nuclear fuel bank Nuclear power plant Operation Plowshare Pro-nuclear movement Science diplomacy Shippingport Reactor Swords...
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Economy (also known as Project 7), the Soviet equivalent of the US Operation Plowshare to investigate peaceful uses of nuclear weapons. It was a subsurface...
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Project Oilsand (category Proposed Project Plowshare projects)
Richfield Oil Corporation. The project was conceived of as part of Operation Plowshare, a United States project to harness the nuclear explosions for peaceful...
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counties in Colorado to have a peaceful nuclear explosion as a part of Operation Plowshare. There were three nearly simultaneous explosions targeted at producing...
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the United States, these were performed under the umbrella name of Operation Plowshare. Aside from these technical considerations, tests have been conducted...
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to be done with atomic bombs, was revived in the 1960s as part of Operation Plowshare. In 1999, Nicaragua's National Assembly unanimously approved an exploration...
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Project List of anti-nuclear groups in the United States Nuclear waste Operation Plowshare Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act Alvin Radkowsky (Chief...
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Mexico in present-day Carson National Forest. This pilot project of Operation Plowshare, code-named Project Gasbuggy, was an attempt to fracture a large...
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uses of nuclear explosives, which the United States explored under Operation Plowshare. One of the most controversial projects he proposed was a plan to...
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French government withdrew funding. Later proposals, made as part of Operation Plowshare, posited that nuclear explosives could be used to dig the proposed...
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yield of over one megaton. Three tests were conducted as part of operation Plowshare and one as part of Vela Uniform. In 1988, as a prelude to the signing...
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generators, and thereby provide electrical power. This meeting led to Operation Plowshare, formed in June 1957 and formally named in 1961. It included three...
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