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Plans to use five thermonuclear explosions to create an artificial harbour at Cape Thompson, Alaska, for Project Chariot in 1958. It was eventually cancelled amid controversy and protest. The outer-outline represents the "full scale" plan, which would require detonations totalling 2.4 megatons. The inner outline is a scaled down version, of 460 kilotons. It would be eventually scaled down to 280 kilotons.

  • Source: Scanned from Dan O'Neill, The Firecracker Boys (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
    • License: Identified as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory image.


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current 23:50, 25 August 2006 1,321×1,788 (1.28 MB) Fastfission (recalibrated the scanner to get it a little crisper and used slightly different colour settings for more texture)
23:32, 25 August 2006 1,026×1,350 (663 KB) Fastfission (scanned)
12:55, 9 September 2005 224×299 (21 KB) Fastfission (Plans to use five thermonuclear explosions to create an artificial harbour at Cape Thompson, Alaska, for Project Chariot in 1958. It was eventually cancelled amid controversy and protest. *Source: http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/VirtualClassroom/Chariot/tel)
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