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
Carlsbad, New Mexico
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Carlsbad is a city in and the county seat of Eddy County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 32,238. Carlsbad is centered at the intersection of U.S. Routes 62/1
Project Gnome (nuclear test)
…test in the state of New Mexico after Trinity. It was tested in southeastern New Mexico on December 10, 1961, approximately 40 km (25 mi) southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico. First announced in 1958, Gnome was delayed by the testing moratorium between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from November 1958…
Photo of Carlsbad from the top of C-Hill
The Cavern Theater
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) with Pat Boone, Peter Ronson, James Mason, and Arlene Dahl was filmed in the Carlsbad area, utilizing the Carlsbad Caverns as a filming location.
A Santa Fe Railway passenger train at Carlsbad in 1967