Project Gnome (nuclear test)
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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 of the Nevada Test Site, and the second test in th
View toward the top of the salt dome cavity created by the Gnome underground nuclear test
Monument at the Project Gnome site in March 2004.
shaft to ground zero
surface ground zero
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 Gnome (nuclear test)
…isotopes, the study of heat recovery, the conduct of neutron physics experiments, and the provision of a seismic source for geophysical studies. Project Gasbuggy Waste Isolation Pilot Plant…
*Project Gasbuggy top placard
The Project Gasbuggy placard.
Gasbuggy nuclear device before emplacement.
Artists impression of the test setup