Ground-Water Investigations of the Project GNOME Area, Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico
Description:
From abstract: The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, through the Office of Test Operations, Albuquerque Operations Office, plans to detonate a nuclear device in a massive salt bed 1,200 feet beneath the land surface. The project, known as Project Gnome, is an element of the Plowshare program--a study of peacetime applications of nuclear fission. The location of the proposed underground shot is in a sparsely-populated area in southeastern Eddy County, N. Mex., east of the Pecos River and about 25 m…
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Date:
March 1962
Creator:
Cooper, James B.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department