Nuclear Weapons 308 - In 1965, The Soviet Union Created Lake Chagan In Kazakhstan With An Underground Nuclear Bomb

       I recently wrote about the Soviet Union using a nuclear warhead to extinguish a fire in a natural gas well that had resisted all other attempts to put it out and had been burning for three years. While the U.S. and other nuclear nations considered the civilian use of nuclear warhead for such things as massive earthmoving projects, the Soviet Union was the most active nation in tested such uses.

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