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Detonated 4,240 ft. below the surface, the 26-kiloton nuclear device was the key tool of Project Gasbuggy, a venture financed by the Atomic Energy Commission and the El Paso Natural Gas Co. and designed to increase natural-gas output. The blast was intended to shatter a large portion of the 285-ft.-thick layer of gas-bearing sandstone lying beneath the Leandro Canyon, thus releasing gas that is tightly locked within the rock. 35-Story Cavity. Ordinarily, gas is obtained simply by drilling a well into a formation of gas-bearing rock. Natural underground pressures then force...
...Congress and the AEC approve, scientists will drill a 20-in. shaft 1,200 ft. down into the ore deposit. They will then lower a 20-kiloton device to the bottom, plug the shaft, and set off a nuclear blast. From experience with previous tests, the AEC knows that the explosion will create tremendous pressures that will literally push the rock away from the blast center, fracturing it in all directions. The result will be a cavity about 200 ft. in diameter; the surface of the earth will quake, but the AEC does not expect any radioactive debris...
...fast-breeder" reactor that generates electricity-and produces enough plutonium to build 36 A-bombs of Hiroshima firepower per year. According to some estimates, India's one existing reactor and three abuilding ones will make enough fissionable fuel for India to produce 15 bombs of 20-kiloton strength by 1990. France has six reactors, Italy three, Japan two and Sweden one. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, nearly 10% of the world's electricity will be supplied by nuclear reactors...
Major Advance? What, precisely, had Peking wrought? Nothing more than Western intelligence sources had predicted all along: the Chinese have built a short-range nuclear missile. The Chinese bomb last week was a 20-kiloton device, about the same size as the Hiroshima bomb and considerably less powerful than the third Chinese A-bomb (130 kilotons) detonated last May. There was conflicting opinion among Western scientists as to whether or not the bomb had been reduced by its builders to the tiny, rugged component parts needed to carry a big bang in a small warhead. If the bomb was "miniaturized...
...Luftwaffe's problems have been compounded by its NATO-assigned mission: to fly under the Soviet radar net and toss 100-kiloton U.S.-owned A-bombs on tactical targets. Such a mission calls for great skill in low-level flying, the most dangerous altitude for speedy jets. Germany's poor weather has made learning the art especially hazardous...