Talk:Peaceful nuclear explosions

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"The experiments continued past the disolution of the U.S.S.R. The Russians agreed to stop their PNE program in 1988 as a result of then president Mikhail S. Gorbachev's disarmament initiative."

Find this a bit contradicting, as the USSR wasn't dissolved until 1991 according to it's article. Did the program continue beyond this, or did it stop in 1988? Bjelleklang 21:22, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

It is bothering me as well. AFAIK, one of the treaties limiting testing of nuclear waepons also forbids any peaceful nuclear explosions (as a an obvious way to circumvent the limits), and both USA and USSR/Russia have been keeping their promise. Maybe the author refer to some projects still developing in Russia, but there have been no peaceful nuclear explosions for a long time abakharev 01:58, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I came over an article somewhere here on WP, that claimed that nuclear bombs with less than a few kilotonnes of effect were allowed to be used in civillian projects, but cant find it right now. Anyway, the current CTBT agreement bans all kinds of nuclear testing, although it hasn't been ratified by all participants, including amongst others, USA and Iran.~ Bjelleklang 02:49, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

See my new additions to the article

[edit] Possible copyright violation

User:DV8 2XL added: "Germany at one time considered manufacturing nuclear explosives for civil engineering purposes. In the early 1970s a feasiblity study was conducted for a project to build a canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Qattara Depression in the Western Desert of Egypt using nuclear demolition. This project proposed to use 213 devices, with yields of 1 to 1.5 megatons detonated at depths of 100 to 500 m, to build this canal for the purpose of producing hydroelectric power."

“Death Stands at Attention” - theTrumpet.com, published in February 2001, says: "It is known that Germany has considered manufacturing fusion bombs for “civil engineering purposes.” In the early 1970s, a feasibility study was conducted for a project to build a canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Qattara Depression in the Western Desert of Egypt using nuclear explosives. This project proposed to use 213 bombs, with yields of 1 to 1.5 megatons, detonated at depths of 100 to 500 meters, to build the canal for the purpose of producing hydroelectric power."

Edward 09:04, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chagan test

"The best known of these in the West was the Chagan test in January of 1965 as radioactivity from the Chagan test was detected over Japan by both the U.S. and Japan in apparent violation of the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT). "

No, it did not violate the treaty because it was an underground test. It's basically a copy of Sedan test. 154.5.61.233 (talk) 05:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)