Project Gasbuggy
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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 part of Operation Plowsha
*Project Gasbuggy top placard
The Project Gasbuggy placard.
Gasbuggy nuclear device before emplacement.
Artists impression of the test setup
Project Rulison
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Project Rulison, named after the rural community of Rulison, Colorado, was an underground 40-kiloton nuclear test project in the United States on September 10, 1969, about 8 miles SE of the town of Gr
Project Gasbuggy
…Project Gasbuggy test, two subsequent nuclear explosion fracturing experiments were conducted in western Colorado in an effort to refine the technique: Project Rulison in 1969 and Project Rio Blanco in 1973. In both cases the gas radioactivity was still seen as too high and in Project Rio Blanco the triple-blast rubble…
View of Rulison Site.
Rulison Test Site in 2012