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
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
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
The Children of John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Dick Powell Fear That Fallout Killed Their Parents
By Karen Jackovich and Mark Sennet
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
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
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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
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
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
The Children of John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Dick Powell Fear That Fallout Killed Their Parents
By Karen Jackovich and Mark Sennet
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
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/