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Project Gnome

  • Part of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Plowshare Program for Peaceful Uses

  • 1961-Sep

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Pamphlet containing an overview of Project Gnome, published in September 1961 by the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).

Project Gnome was part of Project Plowshare, the AEC's effort to develop peacetime uses for nuclear explosives.

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  • 36 pages
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  • Box 1, Folder 35

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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. “Project Gnome,” September 1961. Papers of Spofford Grady English, Box 1, Folder 35. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ef1chzj.

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