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Carlsbad Current-Argus, December 11, 1961

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December 11, 1961 issue of the Carlsbad Current-Argus newspaper. The front page headline reads, "Post-Shot Tests Start at Gnome." Project Gnome was an effort to find peacetime uses for atomic energy. The Atomic Energy Commission detonated a 5-kiloton device underground, 25 miles southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico. There are additional articles about, and images of, the Project Gnome test throughout the issue.

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“Carlsbad Current-Argus, December 11, 1961.” Carlsbad, New Mexico: Carlsbad Current-Argus, December 11, 1961. Papers of Spofford Grady English, Box 1, Folder 36. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/b1q5s7w.

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