Image:Project Chariot plans.jpg

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Plans to use five thermonuclear explosions to create an artificial harbour at Cape Thompson, Alaska, for Project Chariot in 1958. It was eventually cancelled amid controversy and protest. The outer-outline represents the "full scale" plan, which would require detonations totalling 2.4 megatons. The inner outline is a scaled down version, of 460 kilotons. It would be eventually scaled down to 280 kilotons.

  • Source: Scanned from Dan O'Neill, The Firecracker Boys (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
    • License: Identified as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory image.


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The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
  • Edward Teller
  • Operation Plowshare
  • Operation Chariot (1958)
  • List of nuclear tests
  • Peaceful nuclear explosions

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