Operation Plowshare, Sedan Crater

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• Dimensions: 2952 x 3692 px | 25 x 31.3 cm | 9.8 x 12.3 inches | 300dpi
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Storax Sedan, an underground 100-kiloton thermonuclear test conducted at Nevada Test Site on July 6, 1962 as part of Operation Plowshare, was a program designed to develop peaceful uses for nuclear explosives, such as canal and harbor building. Sedan left the largest man-made crater in the United States, displacing 12 million tons of earth and measuring 320 feet deep by 1280 feet in diameter. A circular area was leveled at the bottom of the crater to stop earth that might slide into the center, where sample drilling began eight months after the detonation.

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