Talk:Operation Plowshare

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[edit] Any truth to this?

The following questionable paragraphs were inserted by an anon. at the end of the External links section. They obviously don't belong there, but since I'm having a hard time believing all the details, I don't feel I should just move them to a better place, so I reverted them until some reliable source is provided: Nonenmac 01:49, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

In 1961 a US/Canadian experiment was conducted in a remote part of the alberta tar fields in an attempt to free oil trapped there in scattered pockets in the tarry strata. A 10 kiloton device was detonated 15 September 1961. As expected, it blew a huge bubble which collapsed trapping virtually all the radiation. Unexpected was the upwilling of high grade oil (the top 10 inches of the resulting lake could be run in deisel engines directly) that overflowed in a flood that overtaxed the storage capacity of both nations resulting in consumers seeing straight run gasoline at a pump price of 17 cents/gallon for 2 years.

The US Navy was, for the first time since WW II, authorized to refuel the ships of other nations at sea. The flood of cheap crude devestable the domestic oil industry of both nations. The experiment was classified as a failure and all trace of it has been removed from commone reference sources, including yours.