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The collection of data was substantially completed on Route 17 in Panama one of the routes considered for nuclear excavations... The Atomic Energy Commission has recently conducted the first two of the planned series of nuclear excavation experiments designed to determine the feasibility of nuclear
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in January 1965, has been described as a "near clone" of the U.S. Sedan shot. Like Sedan, Chagan also resulted in a massive plume of radioactive material being blown high into the atmosphere, with an estimated 20% of the fission products with it. Detection of the plume over Japan led to accusations
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chairman announced that the Plowshare project was intended to "highlight the peaceful applications of nuclear explosive devices and thereby create a climate of world opinion that is more favorable to weapons development and tests". The Operation Plowshare program included 27 nuclear tests designed
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in Egypt, an area that lies below sea level. The core problem of the entire project was the water supply to the depression. Calculations by Bassler showed that digging a canal or tunnel would be too expensive, therefore Bassler determined that the use of nuclear explosive devices, to excavate the
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Articles IV and V of the PNE Treaty set forth the agreed verification arrangements. In addition to the use of national technical means, the treaty states that information and access to sites of explosions will be provided by each side, and includes a commitment not to interfere with verification
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icecaps on the planet. Musk's specific plan would not be very feasible within the energy limitations of historically manufactured nuclear devices (ranging in kilotons of TNT-equivalent), therefore requiring major advancement for it to be considered. In part due to these problems, the physicist
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in 1962, which released large amounts of radioactive gas into the air. By the late 1960s, public opposition to Plowshare was increasing, and a 1970s study of the economics of the concepts suggested they had no practical use. Plowshare saw decreasing interest from the 1960s, and was officially
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The later, and more extensive, "Deep Seismic Sounding" Program focused on the use of much smaller explosions for various geological uses. Some of these tests are considered to be operational, not purely experimental. These included the use of peaceful nuclear explosions to create deep
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m (1,300 ft) as a means of investigating the possibilities of using peaceful nuclear explosions for large-scale earth moving. If this test was conducted in 1965, when improvements in device design were realized, a 100-fold reduction in radiation release was considered feasible. The
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The parties reserve the right to carry out nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes in the territory of another country if requested to do so, but only in full compliance with the yield limitations and other provisions of the PNE Treaty and in accord with the
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conducted a much more vigorous program of 239 nuclear tests, some with multiple devices, between 1965 and 1988 under the auspices of Program No. 6—Employment of Nuclear Explosive Technologies in the Interests of National Economy and Program No.
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using nuclear demolition. This project proposed to use 213 devices, with yields of 1 to 1.5 megatons, detonated at depths of 100 to 500 m (330 to 1,640 ft) to build this canal for the purpose of producing hydroelectric power.
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towards investigating these non-weapon uses from 1961 through 1973. Due to the inability of the U.S. physicists to reduce the fission fraction of low-yield (approximately 1 kiloton) nuclear devices that would have been required for many
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The worldwide presence of new isotopes from atmospheric testing beginning in the 1950s led to the 2008 development of a reliable way to detect art forgeries. Paintings created after that period may contain traces of
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intended for spacecraft, though usually powered by means of conventionally pumped, laser arrays. For example, ground flight testing by Professor Leik Myrabo, using a non-nuclear, conventionally powered pulsed laser
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noted on the aluminum sphere located 18 metres (60 ft) from the detonation point, with slightly over 25 millimetres (1 in) of surface material absent upon recovery. These spheres are often referred to as
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Reports on the successful Soviet use of nuclear explosions in extinguishing out-of-control gas well fires were widely cited in United States policy discussions of options for stopping the 2010 Gulf of Mexico
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Soviet peaceful nuclear explosions of the 1970s. Their public records indicate 98% of their 15 kiloton explosive yield was derived from fusion reactions, so only 0.3 kiloton was derived from fission.
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The agreed statement that accompanies the treaty specifies that a "peaceful application" of an underground nuclear explosion would not include the developmental testing of any nuclear explosive.
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conducted a much more exhaustive program than Plowshare, with 239 nuclear tests between 1965 and 1988. Furthermore, many of the "tests" were considered economic applications, not tests, in the
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efforts, both programs came to be controlled by a variety of agreements. Most notable among these is the 1976 Treaty on Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes (PNE Treaty). The
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profiles. Compared to the usage of conventional explosives or mechanical methods, nuclear explosions allow the collection of longer seismic profiles (up to several thousand kilometres).
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asteroid–Earth collisions of 1908 and 2013 respectively, have served as an impetus for the analysis of technologies that could prevent the destruction of human life by impact events.
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use of nuclear explosives may be more efficient, but they run an increased risk of fracturing the target near-Earth object. They also carry higher development and operations risks.
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of 1996 prohibits all nuclear explosions, regardless of whether they are for peaceful purposes or not. Since that time the topic has been raised several times, often as a method of
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Metzger, Peter (February 22, 1970), "Project Gasbuggy and Catch-85*: *That's krypton-85, one of the radioactive by-products of nuclear explosions that release natural gas",
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program. The program was more extensive, eventually conducting 239 nuclear explosions. Some of these tests also released radioactivity, including a significant release of
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of nitrogen gas served as a radioactive tracer that was used to measure and then help model global circulations in the atmosphere by following the movements of fallout
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Viktor Adamsky and Yuri Smirnov. 1994. "Moscow's Biggest Bomb: the 50-Megaton Test of October 1961" Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Issue 4, Fall 1994
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proximity orientation with the asteroid, with the latter method occurring far enough away from the incoming threat to prevent the potential fracturing of the
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at one time considered manufacturing nuclear explosives for civil engineering purposes. In the early 1970s a feasibility study was conducted for a project to
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The ablation data collected for various materials and the distances the spheres were propelled, serve as the bedrock for the nuclear pulse propulsion study,
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impactor, an impactor with a mass of 2,305 kg (5,081 lb), and an impact velocity of about 9,000 km/h (5,600 mph), releasing the kinetic
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gas well in 1966 that had been blowing since 1963, and a few months later a 47 kilotons explosive was used to seal a higher-pressure blowout at the nearby
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that could begin to quickly terraform Mars. One such opportunity for this occurred in October 2014 when a "once-in-a-million-years" comet (designated as
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Comet Siding Spring will pass by Mars only 139,500 km away--which would be like a comet passing about 1/3 of the distance between Earth and the Moon.
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could be made by utilizing nuclear explosions, with the latter created by connecting a nuclear explosive device with another of his inventions, the
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were included in the cost, there was virtually no economic advantage over conventional explosives except for potentially the very largest projects.
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explosions are assessed to be 10–100 times more effective than the non-nuclear alternatives analyzed in this study. Other techniques involving the
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in August 1957. The use of a subterranean shaft and nuclear device to propel an object to escape velocity has since been termed a "thunder well".
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The first preliminary examination of the effects of nuclear detonations upon various metal and non-metal materials, occurred in 1955 with
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The protocol to the PNE Treaty sets forth the specific agreed arrangements for ensuring that no weapon-related benefits precluded by the
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Underground nuclear explosive data from peaceful nuclear explosion test shots have been used to investigate the composition of Earth's
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to collide with each other to probe their inner workings, an endeavor that is now done at much lower energy levels with non-explosive
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was first discovered, in minute quantities, following the analysis of the fallout from the first thermonuclear atmospheric test.
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suggested that a nuclear detonation would be one way of probing the magnetic phenomenon. Data obtained from the August 1958
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Sorry, Elon Musk: One Does Not Simply Nuke Mars Into Habitability “It is silly to expect Mars to become easily habitable.”
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during his appointment to the West German ministry of economics in 1968. He put forth a plan to create a Saharan lake and
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has stated that all PNE technologies have non-nuclear alternatives and that many PNEs actually caused nuclear disasters.
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toward a pole of the planet. Impact would be a much more efficient scheme to deliver the required energy, water vapor,
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The Soviet program started a few years after the U.S. efforts and explored many of the same concepts under their
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are derived by carrying out a nuclear explosion used for peaceful purposes, including provisions for use of the
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The initial program was patterned on the U.S. version, with the same basic concepts being studied. One test,
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displaced 12 million tons of earth, creating the largest man-made crater in the world, generating a large
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One of the first U.S. proposals for peaceful nuclear explosions that came close to being carried out was
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Devices that produced the highest proportion of their yield via fusion-only reactions are possibly the
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In the PNE Treaty, the signatories agreed: not to carry out any individual nuclear explosions having a
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acting on the rear pusher plate of a ship, was and continues to be seriously studied as a potential
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canal or tunnel, would be the most economical. The Egyptian government declined to pursue the idea.
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There were many negative impacts from Project Plowshare's 27 nuclear explosions. For example, the
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Technical Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions; Vienna, Austria; 22 - 24 Nov 1976
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per second on a 1 mm surface, then envisaged making two such beams collide in the form of a
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about 1.7 billion years ago, but these decayed away before the earliest known human painting.)
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Declassified video 0800017 - Operation Teapot, Military Effects Studies - 1954. circa 19 mins
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IAEA review of the 1968 book: The constructive uses of nuclear explosions by Edward Teller.
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conducted for non-military purposes. Proposed uses include excavation for the building of
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Treaty between the USA and USSR on underground nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes
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was a "900kg manhole cover" propelled by the somewhat focused detonation of test shot
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by the U.S. that the Soviets had carried out an above-ground test in violation of the
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schemes involved chaining five thermonuclear devices to create the artificial harbor.
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Congressional Record: proceedings & debates of the 90th Congress, second session
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Alternatively, as nuclear detonations are presently somewhat limited in terms of
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Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean
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by the detonation of high-fusion-yielding thermonuclear devices over the mostly
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EINSTEINIUM AND FERMIUM, ALBERT GHIORSO, LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY
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would provide the needed direct experimental confirmation of the so-called
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analysis of impact avoidance strategies using various technologies stated:
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wavelength impinging on a 1-km diameter sail, could propel a spacecraft to
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some 65 million years ago. A natural impact with an explosive yield of 100
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was the name of the U.S. program for the development of techniques to use
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Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission
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Russia Today documentary that visits the lake at around the 1 minute mark
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The bright spikes extending below the initial fireball of one of 1952's
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flux environment within thermonuclear explosions, followed the first
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intended to focus these X-rays to allow attacks over long distances.
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studies. The largest of the excavation tests was carried out in the
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Entangled histories: Climate science and nuclear weapons research
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investigation, were vital to the early understanding of Earth's
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Upper Mantle Heterogeneities from Active and Passive Seismology
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These included a 30 kilotons explosion being used to close the
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for peaceful purposes. The name was coined in 1961, taken from
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United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 through September 1992
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effect. He theorized this could focus 10 positively charged
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The largest excavation experiment took place in 1962 at the
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mission, which launched in 2009 and released the "Centaur"
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have been tested and used, in a similar manner to chemical
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into the groundwater and the polluting of an area near the
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On the Soviet program for peaceful uses of nuclear weapons
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The Soviet Program for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions
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The repeated detonation of nuclear devices underground in
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impacting with Earth, assuming short lead times between
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projects, when long-term health and clean-up costs from
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In the U.S., a series of tests were carried out under
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nuclear explosive device could be employed to "nudge"
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Laser ablation is one of the damage mechanisms of a
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Laser Propulsion Thrusters for Space Transportation
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Use of nuclear explosives for non-military purposes
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Index

Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty
nuclear explosions
canals
harbours
fracking
United States
Soviet Union
Project Plowshare
Panama Canal
Nicaragua Canal
Project PACER
radionuclide
Sedan nuclear test
Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy
plutonium
Volga River
arms control
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
asteroid impact avoidance
yield
TNT equivalent
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Non-Proliferation Treaty
Threshold Test Ban Treaty
hydrodynamic
seismic

Operation Plowshare
nuclear explosives
Micah

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