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Nuclear Expositions in the Rockies Part 2

December 23, 2023 Mason Season 1 Episode 3
Nuclear Expositions in the Rockies Part 2
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False Summits
Nuclear Expositions in the Rockies Part 2
Dec 23, 2023 Season 1 Episode 3
Mason

In this instalment, Mason and Jess concluded their talk about Project Plowshare. Lean how Atomic Energy Commission tested a nuke almost 3 times the size of the bomb used in Hiroshima in a western Colorado community, the citizens who tried to stop it, and how the their work lead to the downfall of the Plowshare project. 

Sources 

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

https://st.llnl.gov/

The Plowshare Program | Science and Technology

Edward Teller, 1958–1960

 

Forty-Five Years Ago, the Government Used Subterranean Nukes to Dig for Natural Gas

Josiah M. Hesse

Vice.com

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4w7pgj/45-years-ago-colorado-fracked-with-subterranean-nuclear-bombs-1015

 

The Boom Years

Scott C. Yates

westword

https://www.westword.com/news/nuclear-blast-colorado-edward-teller-5058374

 

People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado

By: Valerie Kuletz

coloradonuclearatlas.org

 

The Children of John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Dick Powell Fear That Fallout Killed Their Parents

By Karen Jackovich and Mark Sennet

https://people.com/archive/the-children-of-john-wayne-susan-hayward-and-dick-powell-fear-that-fallout-killed-their-parents-vol-14-no-19/

 

people.com

 

Want To Trigger A Nuke In Colorado? Well, Thanks To Project Rulison 50 Years Ago You Need To Ask Voters First

By Grace Hood

CPR

https://www.cpr.org/2019/09/10/want-to-trigger-a-nuke-in-colorado-well-thanks-to-project-rulison-50-years-ago-you-need-to-ask-voters-first/

 

Plowshare 

By Carl R Gerber , Richard Hamburger, E. W Seabrook Hull   

https://www.osti.gov/includes/opennet/includes/Understanding%20the%20Atom/Plowshare.pdf

  

Photo Credits:

Los Alamos National Laboratory

US Department of Energy 

Thank you for your suport!
We would love to hear from you!
Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_pod




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Show Notes

In this instalment, Mason and Jess concluded their talk about Project Plowshare. Lean how Atomic Energy Commission tested a nuke almost 3 times the size of the bomb used in Hiroshima in a western Colorado community, the citizens who tried to stop it, and how the their work lead to the downfall of the Plowshare project. 

Sources 

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

https://st.llnl.gov/

The Plowshare Program | Science and Technology

Edward Teller, 1958–1960

 

Forty-Five Years Ago, the Government Used Subterranean Nukes to Dig for Natural Gas

Josiah M. Hesse

Vice.com

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4w7pgj/45-years-ago-colorado-fracked-with-subterranean-nuclear-bombs-1015

 

The Boom Years

Scott C. Yates

westword

https://www.westword.com/news/nuclear-blast-colorado-edward-teller-5058374

 

People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado

By: Valerie Kuletz

coloradonuclearatlas.org

 

The Children of John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Dick Powell Fear That Fallout Killed Their Parents

By Karen Jackovich and Mark Sennet

https://people.com/archive/the-children-of-john-wayne-susan-hayward-and-dick-powell-fear-that-fallout-killed-their-parents-vol-14-no-19/

 

people.com

 

Want To Trigger A Nuke In Colorado? Well, Thanks To Project Rulison 50 Years Ago You Need To Ask Voters First

By Grace Hood

CPR

https://www.cpr.org/2019/09/10/want-to-trigger-a-nuke-in-colorado-well-thanks-to-project-rulison-50-years-ago-you-need-to-ask-voters-first/

 

Plowshare 

By Carl R Gerber , Richard Hamburger, E. W Seabrook Hull   

https://www.osti.gov/includes/opennet/includes/Understanding%20the%20Atom/Plowshare.pdf

  

Photo Credits:

Los Alamos National Laboratory

US Department of Energy 

Thank you for your suport!
We would love to hear from you!
Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_pod




Music Provided by
https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/