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Nuclear Weapons Test-Ground View Of Salmon-5.3kt

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Credit Must Go To Peter Kuran Producer/Director For this footage.

I feel really bad for that cow....
Two nuclear detonations performed in a subterranean salt dome formation in Mississippi, as part of a 1960's Atomic Energy Commission Test. The test program, called Project Dribble, called for creating an underground cavity, using a nuclear bomb to do so, then later detonating a second nuclear device, as well as two gas explosives, inside the cavity. The purpose of the test was to measure the patterns of the shock waves generated by the explosions, to be better able to detect and calculate yields of similar underground tests that might be performed by the USSR. The first detonation, to form the cavity, code-named Salmon, took place in 1964 using a 5.3 kiloton bomb, placed at the bottom of a sealed 2,710 foot shaft. The second nuclear blast, a relatively small 0.38 kilotons yield shot code-named Sterling, was exploded within Salmon's 110 foot diameter cavity more than two years later. The two conventional explosives shots were performed in 1969 and 1970.

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  • You should ...

    You should volunteer.

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  • Lol, yeah, the cows ...

    Lol, yeah, the cows didn't die though, maybe they only lost 100% of thier hearing, still animal crualty is discusting, it's like wtf, why do we have to test on animals...

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  • and these tests ...

    and these tests helped figure out what? how the ground can jump up from a big boom under ground? didn't those scientist morons ever bury a fire cracker as kids to find that out? this is F**king retarded and destructive. this is why i dont pay taxes.

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  • lol

    lol

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  • yeh poor cow if ...

    yeh poor cow if they didnt fart and S**t alot they would make nice house pets.....discuss

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