U.S. Plowshare Program recorded at History Colorado - La Voz Colorado

U.S. Plowshare Program recorded at History Colorado - La Voz Colorado

Imagine you’re eating breakfast when the ground beneath you begins to rumble. Dust rises from a nearby mesa, the shaking builds to a wobbly crescendo until…it’s over. Just like that. Was it all worth it? This was the burning question for folks near Rulison, Colorado, on September 10, 1969, when a nuclear bomb—more than twice as powerful as the weapon dropped on Hiroshima—detonated 8,000 feet beneath their homes. The risky experiment named Projec…