A FORCE TO MOVE THE EARTH PROJECT PLOWSHARE NUCLEAR TEST FILM 25134
Created for the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, A FORCE TO MOVE THE EARTH profiles Project Plowshare, a Cold War era effort to find useful non-military uses for nuclear weapons, primarily in the field of mechanical engineering.
Project Plowshare, also known as Operation Plowshare, was the overall United States term for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. The phrase was coined in 1961, taken from Isaiah 2:3--5 ("And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more"). It was the U.S. portion of what are called Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (PNE).
Successful demonstrations of non-combat uses for nuclear explosives include rock blasting, stimulation of tight gas, chemical element manufacture (test shot Anacostia resulted in Curium-250m being discovered), unlocking some of the mysteries of the so-called "r-Process" of stellar nucleosynthesis and probing the composition of the Earth's deep crust, creating reflection seismology Vibroseis data which has helped geologists and follow on mining company prospecting.Negative impacts from Project Plowshare's 27 nuclear projects including nuclear contamination led to the program's termination in 1977, due in large part to public opposition. These consequences included tritium contaminated water and the deposition of fallout from radioactive material being injected into the atmosphere before underground testing was mandated by treaty.
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The oil idea was farfetched but the construction ideas would be insanely useful except for the fact that it produced a crap load of radiation and radioactive clouds of ash
@Constant_Of_Morality
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It really didn't, Many of the tests shown that's not how it worked, One test of a 1.7 Kt device didn't produce any radiation at all that got to the surface, As well as the Oil idea was quite possible just like the Gas one. "radioactive contamination from the flaring “was miniscule compared to the fallout produced by atmospheric weapons tests in the early 1960s.”
Let's see, I'll put the wabbit in the wadioactive chamber and have glowing hot hasenpfeffer in less than one minute.
a force to remove WTC 1, 2, and 7
This film barely touched the dangers of what Project Plowshare uncovered during the testing. Edward Teller (the Father of the H Bomb) was working on a project in Alaska to use 6 thermonuclear bombs to carve a new harbor in Alaska (Project Chariot). His willful lying about radiation releases and ecological damage that could have happened if the project went forward is well documented in the book "The Firecracker Boys" by Dan O'Neill. You can find it on E Bay for a few bucks. This book did not sugarcoat the dangers of what Teller was planning on doing in Alaska. The test site in Nevada that "excavated" is STILL CONSIDERED DANGEROUSLY RADIOACTIVE as is documented in the book. It is very well written and shows us how close we came to creating ecological nightmares that we can't fathom today. If you are interested in these sorts of factual stories, I strongly suggest you get the book.
Ah yes, Gasbuggy. Also known as nuclear fracking. What numbskull ever thought that would work? Operation Plowshare was an absolute disaster. I guess we had to keep all those mechanical engineers employed somehow. This must be a recruiting film for "engineers".
@Constant_Of_Morality
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Plowshare was far from a Disaster lol, You should read more about it.