What was the "carry all plan" planned to blow up the mountain ranges with 23 nuclear bombs?

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It spreads to California, Utah, Nevada and Arizona states in the southwestern part of the United StatesMojave DesertWith a maximum altitude of 1181 mBristol MountainsThere is towering up. Once used to connect Santa Monica, California, to Chicago, IllinoisRoute 66(National Route 66) and the transcontinental railroad company of the ContinentSanta Fe RailwayWas obliged to take a route which largely bypasses the Bristol mountains to the south, but in fact, the project "Carry All Plan" to build a new route by blasting the Bristol mountains with a nuclear bomb was formulated .

The U.S. once considered using 23 nuclear bombs to blast out a highway
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The Bristol mountain bomb explosion plan was settled in the 1960s in the middle of the cold war. From the 1950s to the 1960s, various nuclear tests were conducted by the US and the former Soviet Union. The plan was drafted at the Santa Fe railroad that wanted to lay a straight and undulating railway through the Bristol mountains, and its plan will go through the tunnel of 3.2 km through the mountain range and the place 150 m below the mountain range The construction of the tunnel was incorporated.

ByKelly Mendenhall

At the time I was seeking peaceful use of nuclear weapons that showed interest in the recklessly planned Santa Fe railroadAmerican Atomic Energy Commissionis. Also California Division of Highways in California, where the Santa Fe railroad had been planning the blasting of the Bristol mountain range and was building the Interstate Highway Route 40 to replace Route 66, was also interested in planning the Santa Fe railroad I got it.

It was the "carry all plan" that was born after such circumstances. The carry - all plan led by the American Atomic Energy Commission is to open tunnels to the Bristol mountains with as many as 22 nuclear bombs, and to make a huge crater for spilled water with one nuclear bomb. The cost of planning to use a total of 23 nuclear bombs is 13.8 million dollars (about 4.97 billion yen at the time) and 8 million dollars (about 2.9 billion yen) lower than the method that does not use nuclear bombs That thing.

ByMichael Heilemann

The American Atomic Energy Commission has concluded that "Carry-all plan is technically possible and can be done safely." However, the question remains "to carry out safely". The plan stated that "workers will start working in the tunnel four days after the bombing", and work was scheduled to be carried out on the scene where radiation contamination is strong.

Fortunately, the carry-all plan ceased from many technical problems, and the workers are no longer at risk of life. Furthermore, the American Atomic Energy Commission will study the peaceful use of nuclear weaponsPlowscheer strategyStarted in 1961, as part of that on July 6, 1962 at the Nevada nuclear test siteSedan nuclear test, Radioactive fallout fell into the surrounding state, strong radioactivity was detected in the area, causing more than 13 million people in the US to be exposed to the atomic bomb. In the United States a lot of discussion was invoked, the Plowshares operation ended in 1977.

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Prohibit the explosion by nuclear test of nuclear weapons in space, in the atmosphere, underwater and undergroundComprehensive Test Ban TreatyWas adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1996, but the United States has signed but has not ratified it. The entry into force of the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty is a member of the Geneva Conference on Disarmament,The world power reactor"and"Research reactor for the world"It is stipulated that the ratification of all 44 countries listed in the Norway must be ratified, and ratification of the United States is essential for the entry into force of the Convention. Since eight countries, including China and Israel, have not yet ratified other than the United States, the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty remains unexplored as the article writing.