Caption
Dulce, New Mexico, The site of Project Gasbuggy, a 1967 nuclear explosion designed to fracture rock to extract natural gas. The project was part of Operation Plowshare, a government program aimed at finding peaceful uses for nuclear explosions. It worked as planned, except that the gas that was liberated was too radioactive to be used
Date
Jun 23, 2021
Credit line
Photo12/imageBROKER/Jim West
Reference
BRK25B57_158
Model release
No
Property release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
86,1Mb (6,5Mb) / 22,4in x 14,9in / 6720 x 4480 (300dpi)