Unofficial History

American scientists with a series of nuclear explosions were planning to blow up more locations in the world, and the reasons were unbelievable.

This year we “celebrating” 60 years since the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) firmly decided to find, with its "Plowshare" project find "peaceful" use of atomic bomb.

They were very ambitious and very imaginative. Enthusiastic government scientists though that with a help of a series of controlled nuclear explosions, they could blow up space for the port in Alaska.

Or to be able to destroy deep underground to make room for an underground reservoir in Arizona. Or to deftly and cleverly directed nuclear blast pierce tunnel route I-40 through the mountain Bristol at Los Angeles.

Fortunately, almost all of these project were abandon because they are already stuck at the first hurdle when they start with the underground nuclear explosions in places where they assumed that such fierce strike could cause large cracks in gas and oil layers from which it would then be easier pumping oil and gas.

It was an idea very close to today's "fracking". It turned out, however, that the gas such that upon explosion was regularly contaminated by radiation from which it was unable to remove.

But there was a catch with the Americans who quickly realized that nuclear bombs emit radiation that clouds can move thousands of kilometers before someone experience radioactive rain.

For several years, the authorities have detonated an atomic bombs for that purpose.

1962 is also in Nevada exploded a nuclear explosion Sedan, which stones and land rose launched 90 meters in the air, becoming famous as an explosion that Americans showered with radioactive radiation like no other.

Bomb of power of 104 kilotons released from the dump 11 million tons of earth and rock, leaving in this town 100 meters deep and 390 meters wide crater. It is a remarkable rat hole so that soon the law protect moving on in the National Register of Historic Places.

About what scientists intended testify documents from the Presidential book Lyndon B. Johnson.

They were trying to tame the river rapids in Brazil, to drill the Mediterranean coast in Egypt in order to build a hydroelectric power plant, even they could think of to several hundred nuclear explosions could dig up the existing Panama Canal to expand it because of constant quarrels with Panama certainly could lead to problems in maintaining the channel.