Storax Sedan,an underground 100-kiloton thermonuclear test conducted at Nevada Test Site on July 6,1962 as part of Operation Plowshare,was a program designed to develop peaceful uses for nuclear explosives,such as canal and harbor building. Sedan left the largest man-made crater in the United States,displacing 12 million tons of earth and measuring 320 feet deep by 1280 feet in diameter. A circular area was levelled at the bottom of the crater to stop earth that might slide into the centre,where sample drilling began eight months after the detonation | |
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