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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • explosions (PNEs). It was analogous to the United States program Operation Plowshare. One of the better-known tests was Chagan of January 15, 1965. Radioactivity...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    initiated Operation Plowshare, involving "peaceful nuclear explosions". The United States Atomic Energy Commission chairman announced that the Plowshares project...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Project Gasbuggy (category Project Plowshare nuclear tests)
    on December 10, 1967 in rural northern New Mexico. It was part of Operation Plowshare, a program designed to find peaceful uses for nuclear explosions...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Map all coordinates in "Operation Toggle" using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary...
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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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    nuclear weapons for "civilian" and "peaceful" purposes as part of Operation Plowshare. In this instance, a 1,280-foot (390 m) diameter 320-foot (98 m)...
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