Knowledge Ninja

💡

💡

about project plowshare, a US program to find peaceful uses for nuclear weapons including excavating dig sites using nuclear weapons

May 14, 2022•1 min read

Fun Fact: about project plowshare, a US program to find peaceful uses for nuclear weapons including excavating dig sites using nuclear weapons

Source

en.wikipedia.org

Share this fascinating fact! 🥷

Share on X Discover more facts

💡More Fun Facts

Keep exploring and learning

that the identity politics of the Nazi Party led them to marginalizing Albert Einstein s quantum physics as Jewish Physics , which prevented Nazi Germany from pursuing an effective nuclear weapons program.

after Hiroshima, the US pledged to destroy all nuclear weapons if one organization was permitted to control all nuclear material and mining operations on Earth under the Baruch Plan

the U.S. military is missing 6 nuclear weapons the longest missing nuclear weapon hasn t been seen in 71 years, and it is unlikely it will be found anytime soon.

as part of Project Plowshare in the 1960 s, the US government evaluated exploding 550 nuclear bombs across the Negev Desert to create an alternate canal to the Suez but was abandoned after a commission found that two dozen 2 megaton test detonations caused too much radiation

That the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had planned to carve out an artificial harbor in Northern Alaska using buried nuclear explosions. The plan (Project Chariot) had a lot of public support and would have been carried out if the Inupiat village of Point Hope hadn t strongly opposed it.

that there is strong evidence the US sent residents back to the bikini atol post testing of nuclear weapons as it affords the opportunity for a most valuable ecological radiation study on human beings the relocation resulted in many premature deaths and disabilities in newborns.

Explore All Fun Facts