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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natural gas storage reservoir in Pennsylvania. The project was proposed as a component of Project Plowshare, which sought ways to use nuclear devices in public...
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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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gasify coal in place underground in Wyoming. The project was proposed as a component of Project Plowshare, which sought ways to use nuclear devices in public...
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well as the Operation Plowshare project which explored peaceful engineering uses of nuclear explosions. The peaceful aim of Project Rulison was to determine...
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Yucca Flat (section Project Plowshare)
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...
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plough or plow. Ploughshare or Plowshare may also refer to: Project Plowshare, United States project to use nuclear explosives for civilian purposes Ploughshare...
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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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December 10, 1967 in rural northwestern New Mexico. It was part of Operation Plowshare, a program designed to find peaceful uses for nuclear explosions. Gasbuggy...
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The Zap Gun (redirect from Project Plowshare book)
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...
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Atomic Age (section Project Plowshare)
initiated Project Plowshare, involving "peaceful nuclear explosions". The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman announced that Plowshare was...
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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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Angeles–based Richfield Oil Corporation. The project was conceived of as part of Operation Plowshare, a United States project to harness the nuclear explosions for...
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Bristol Mountains of southern California. The project was proposed as a component of Project Plowshare, which sought ways to use nuclear devices in public...
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Soviet Union. In the U.S., a series of tests were carried out under Project Plowshare. Some of the ideas considered included blasting a new Panama Canal...
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Swords to ploughshares (redirect from Swords to plowshares)
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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Sedan (nuclear test) (redirect from Project Sedan)
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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Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway (category Proposed Project Plowshare projects)
investigated as a candidate for the use of nuclear explosives as part of Project Plowshare. Three routes were considered, including the Yellow Creek route that...
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stimulation test in the Plowshare program, which was designed to develop peaceful uses for nuclear explosives. The two previous tests were Project Gasbuggy in New...
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concept. The initial PACER proposals were studied under the larger Project Plowshares efforts in the United States, which examined the use of nuclear explosions...
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is mounted on the exposed pipe to commemorate the event. Buggy was a Plowshare test designed to excavate a channel. It was a simultaneous detonation...
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using nuclear explosives for dam construction. The project was proposed as a component of Project Plowshare, which sought ways to use nuclear devices in public...
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American nuclear research establishment. But in a 1965 interview on Project Plowshare, Teller used the standard pronunciation. The 17th U.S. Secretary of...
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lakes, harbors and canals was modeled after a United States program, Project Plowshare, which conducted the first peaceful nuclear explosion (the 104 kt...
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government of crude oil theft. Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy Project Plowshare Nordyke, et al. (28 June 1973). A Review of Soviet Data on the Peaceful...
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Man" (1964) "The Little Black Box" (1964) "Retreat Syndrome" (1965) "Project Plowshare (later "The Zap Gun")" (1965) "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"...
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flavored fortified wine Project Thunderbird, a 1967 proposed nuclear detonation in Wyoming coal deposits as part of Project Plowshare All pages with titles...
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Man" (1964) "The Little Black Box" (1964) "Retreat Syndrome" (1965) "Project Plowshare (later "The Zap Gun")" (1965) "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"...
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Nuclear Cratering Group (category Project Plowshare)
some of which were proposed for the Atomic Energy Commission's (AEC) Project Plowshare program for peaceful nuclear explosions. In particular, the NCG was...
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Man" (1964) "The Little Black Box" (1964) "Retreat Syndrome" (1965) "Project Plowshare (later "The Zap Gun")" (1965) "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"...
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