Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #35

0800035 - Nuclear Excavation, Excavating with Nuclear Explosives - 1968 - 8:45 - Black&White and Plowshare - 1973 - 28:22 - Color - This video discusses the Plowshare Program - a program that promoted using the energy produced from nuclear explosions for peaceful uses and applications. The Atomic Energy Commission established the program in 1958, and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) developed and implemented the projects and tests. Under this program 27 nuclear tests comprising 35 individual detonations were conducted.

The video describes the objectives of the Plowshare Program tests that include: stimulation of natural gas production; creation of underground zones of fractured oil shale; earth breaking and moving projects; neutron irradiation of targets to create new elements; copper and other metal extraction from the earth; breaking and crushing mineral deposits; and rapid excavation for large-scale construction projects such as harbors, canals, or mountain passes.

Comparisons between conventional and nuclear explosives in terms of cost, volume, and practical uses are discussed. Nuclear explosions are shown in schematic animation format in addition to actual film footage. Footage of people entering the underground GNOME cavity is shown, as well as close-ups of the five simultaneous, BUGGY row detonations. Conventional explosive comparisons are also shown, including one of almost 1400 tons of chemical explosives that decapitated the submerged pinnacles of Ripple Rock. The Rock had imperiled ships using the Inland Passage north of Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Plowshare tests shown in the "Nuclear Excavation" portion of the video include:

SEDAN, July 6, 1962, NTS, 104 kilotons (kt)
SULKY, NTS, December 18, 1964, 92 tons
CABRIOLET, NTS, January 26, 1968, 2.3 kt
BUGGY-A, BUGGYB, BUGGYC, BUGGYD, and BUGGY-E, March 12, 1968, NTS, five simultaneous detonations, separate holes, 1.08 kt (each)
SCHOONER, NTS, December 8, 1968, 30 kt

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• warhead
• downwinders
• atomic
• cancer

[Wafflepudding]

@anthonyc31 He's not the one claiming that a 150kt explosion at 50 meters depth would cause a localized precision cave-in. Hell screw it ground zero is not in the middle of a desert, why don't you go test your little theory with a dosimeter?

[anthonyc31]

@r0ck3tsm0k3 and you are most definitely one of them.

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

@anunnaki2006 HAHAAHAH. Just HAHAAH. You have no idea how powerful 150 KT is. At 50 meters, a 150 KT bomb would make a crater several hundred feet deep and a good thousand feet wide. How many stupid people are there in the world? There must be millions. Very sad.

[wwwunitednuclear]

@anunnaki2006 Wrong on all counts.

[anunnaki2006]

The Twin Towers we're demolished by 150 kiloton thermo-nuclear weapons detonated 50 meters below the foundations of the Towers buried deep in GRANITE ROCK. You need 200 atmospheres of pressure to pulverize steel to dust or 50,000-100,000 degrees of heat. Why were the FBI wearing Hazmat suits? Why was the soil being recycled like with Chernobyl? Why has the radiation sickness been covered up with veils like asbestos covering up the fast acting cancers?

[FreeNBK2000]

@luridplanet After 'Sedan' the local radiation was measured at 6000 roentgens per hour. Death dose in 5 minutes. In the crater it is still 1.5 roentgen per hour, plus if you dig down abit it is near to 5 roentgen per hour. Normal range is 0.000006 to 0.000015 roentgens.

[danieldeibler]

@luridplanet Yes.

[wardenphil]

Starting at 20:50, it sounds like this video admits to the existence of a Neutron Bomb at least as far back as 1964.

[luridplanet]

They keep claiming that little residual radiation is left behind - oh really?

[luridplanet]

It's cheaper and safer to use ammonium nitrate or fuel-air explosives to do large excavations, rather than nuclear weapons.