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Atomic Energy Commission
Project Rulison or: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Natural Gas.
Submitted by Noel on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 5:51pm
On September 10, 1969, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), in order to release natural gas deposits locked underground, exploded a 40-kiloton atomic bomb on Colorado’s Western Slope in what i
