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    In agriculture, a plowshare (US) or ploughshare (UK; /ˈplaʊʃɛər/) is a component of a plow (or plough). It is the cutting or leading edge of a moldboard...
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    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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    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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    ploughshares in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swords to ploughshares (or plowshares) is a concept in which military weapons or technologies are converted...
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  • ploughshare or plowshare in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ploughshare or plowshare is a component of a plough or plow. Ploughshare or Plowshare may also...
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    Sedan (nuclear test) (category Project Plowshare nuclear tests)
    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, cratering...
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  • Swords to Plowshares is a veterans organization that provides job training, housing, and benefits advocacy to low income and homeless U.S. military veterans...
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  • The Plowshares Project is a Peace Studies collaborative between Manchester University, Earlham College and Goshen College in Indiana. The Plowshares Project...
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  • Dick. It was written in 1964 and first published under the title Project Plowshare as a serial in the November 1965 and January 1966 issues of Worlds of...
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    The Kings Bay Plowshares are a group of seven Catholic peace activists who broke into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base and carried out a symbolic act...
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  • opposition to Plowshare was increasing, and a 1970s study of the economics of the concepts suggested they had no practical use. Plowshare saw decreasing...
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    many ploughs that cuts an edge about 7 inches (18 cm) deep ahead of a plowshare. Its most effective depth is determined by soil conditions. Its earliest...
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    Guns into Plowshares is a sculpture by Mennonite artists Esther Augsburger and Michael Augsburger. It depicts the blade of a giant plow, fashioned out...
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    Project Plowshare, involving "peaceful nuclear explosions". The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman announced that Plowshare was intended...
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    Project Rulison (category Project Plowshare nuclear tests)
    test series under the name Mandrel Rulison, as well as the Operation Plowshare project which explored peaceful engineering uses of nuclear explosions...
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    In 1959, a bronze statue promoting the slogan Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares was donated by the Soviet Union to the United Nations. It was sculpted...
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    test of Operation Storax on July 6, 1962, a 104 kiloton shot for Project Plowshare which sought to discover whether nuclear weapons could be used for peaceful...
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    are characterized by locality. In other words, homi is classified into plowshare-shaped (보습형), sickle-shaped (낫형), and triangle-shaped (세모형) depending...
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  • (1964) "The Little Black Box" (1964) "Retreat Syndrome" (1965) "Project Plowshare (later "The Zap Gun")" (1965) "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)...
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    (1964) "The Little Black Box" (1964) "Retreat Syndrome" (1965) "Project Plowshare (later "The Zap Gun")" (1965) "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)...
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    Grammichele (Sicilian: Grammicheli, Greek: Echetle (meaning "plowshare"); Latin: Echetla, Ochula; Medieval: Occhiolà) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan...
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    blind man who felt the elephant's head), a winnowing basket (ear), a plowshare (tusk), a plow (trunk), a granary (body), a pillar (foot), a mortar (back)...
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    (1964) "The Little Black Box" (1964) "Retreat Syndrome" (1965) "Project Plowshare (later "The Zap Gun")" (1965) "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)...
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  • The Pitstop Ploughshares were a group of five members of the Catholic Worker Movement who made their way into Shannon Airport in Ireland and damaged a...
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    Project Gnome (nuclear test) (category Project Plowshare nuclear tests)
    Project Gnome was the first nuclear test of Project Plowshare and was the first continental nuclear weapon test since Trinity to be conducted outside...
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    associated with a fan of tail feathers. The other pygostyle type is plowshare-shaped. It is found in Ornithurae (living birds and their closest relatives)...
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  • a nuclear explosive set off for peaceful reasons, such as Operation Plowshare Penge East railway station, London, National Rail station code PNE The...
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  • proposed nuclear detonation in Wyoming coal deposits as part of Project Plowshare All pages with titles beginning with Thunderbird All pages with titles...
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    Project Chariot (category Proposed Project Plowshare projects)
    string of nuclear devices. The project originated as part of Operation Plowshare, a research project to find peaceful uses for nuclear explosives. Substantial...
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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 been...
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