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...e powered nuclear pulse rocket called [[Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)|Project Orion]]. Never built, this vessel would use repeated nuclear explosions to [[File:Sedan Plowshare Crater.jpg|thumb|The 1962 [[Sedan (nuclear test)|Sedan nuclear test]] forme ...

The remainder of the range is designated for Wilderness status in the proposed [[California Desert Protection Act of 2010]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fe ...E/NV/26383-22, 1046575 |doi=10.2172/1046575 |volume=2 |language=en|section=Project Ketch|pages=4-47 – 4-48}}</ref> ...

[[File:Project Chariot plans.jpg|right|thumb|250px|One of the ''Chariot'' schemes involved '''Project Chariot''' was a 1958 [[United States Atomic Energy Commission]] proposal t ...

[[File:USACE Tenn-Tom project map.png|thumb|Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (red)]] ...ed a negative report, emphasizing that prohibitive cost estimates kept the project from economic feasibility.<ref name="vanwest1" /> ...

...torical Society|title=Reference Series, #171: Early irrigation canals, pre-project ventures|access-date=August 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/we [[Image:Boise irrigation project.jpg|thumb|180px|upright|Boise Irrigation Project, 1910<br>Photo by [[Walter Lubken]]. ]] ...

{{About|proposed peaceful uses of nuclear weapons|the serialized Philip K. Dick novel with t [[Image:Sedan Plowshare Crater.jpg|thumb|The 1962 "[[Sedan (nuclear test)|Sedan]]" plowshares shot ...

...''PNEs''') are [[nuclear explosion]]s conducted for non-military purposes. Proposed uses include excavation for the building of [[canal]]s and [[harbours]], el ...tudy of the economics of the concepts suggested they had no practical use. Plowshare saw decreasing interest from the 1960s, and was officially cancelled in 197 ...

...est trans-continental freeway to serve the south-central United States was proposed in multiple plans throughout the 1930s and 1940s for what later became the ...ssor agency to the [[California Department of Transportation]] (Caltrans), proposed that the route be renumbered to [[Interstate 30|I-30]] instead because of t ...

...illed, the site was deemed unsuitable,<ref name="doe_responsib" /> and the project was moved to the [[Nevada test site]].<ref name="doe_remed" /> ...date= 7 September 2006 | url-status= live|display-authors=etal}}</ref> The project was subsequently initiated by the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] admin ...

...n research; the other is [[magnetic confinement fusion]] (MCF). When first proposed in the early 1970s, ICF appeared to be a practical approach to power produc ...cult engineering problem to extract power from the resulting explosions. [[Project PACER]] studied solutions to the engineering issues,{{sfn|Nuckolls|1998|p=1 ...

...uclear Threat Initiatives, South Africa (NTI South Africa)"/> In 1969, the project was abandoned by the South African government because the reactor was drain ...eapons did not endorse the deployment of the arms in combat, but rather it proposed that the threat of the country's deployment of a nuclear arsenal could be u ...

...eway in 1960,<ref>{{Cite news |title = State Asks Bids For Link in U.S. 80 Project Here |date = January 6, 1959 |work = The San Diego Union |page = A13 |oclc ...= A22 |oclc = 13155544 }}</ref> This was projected to be the final highway project before I-5 was completed in San Diego County.<ref>{{cite news |title = Inte ...

...öttingen]] |[[Bohr Institute]] |[[University College London]] |[[Manhattan Project]] |[[University of Chicago]] |[[Florida Institute of Technology]] |[[Univer ...a thermonuclear Alarm Clock bomb with a yield of 1000 MT (1 GT of TNT) and proposed delivering it by boat or submarine to incinerate a continent.{{sfn|Rhodes|1 ...

...sociation for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project Ambassador Gale McGee |url=https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/McGee,%20Gale.toc.pdf ...11, 1979, and September 17, 1979, for the Former Members of Congress, Inc. project, "The Modern Congress in American History." Funded by the National Endowmen ...

...=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004220043/http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/archive/nucweapons/figure1 |archive-date=4 October 2013 }}</ref> It is esti ===Manhattan Project=== ...

...ns of mass destruction|Canada]] during [[World War II]] in the [[Manhattan Project]]. Production requires a large scientific and industrial complex, primarily ...|thumb|left|The [[Trinity (nuclear test)|Trinity test]] of the [[Manhattan Project]] was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, which led [[J. Robert Oppen ...

...olve [[prospecting]] for ore bodies, analysis of the profit potential of a proposed mine, extraction of the desired materials, and final [[mine reclamation|rec ...entations and [[pottery]]. Later, between 2613 and 2494 BC, large building projects required expeditions abroad to the area of [[Wadi Maghareh]] in order to se ...

...of the [[Department of Atomic Energy]] (DAE). By supporting space science projects which initially derived their funding from the AEC, he played an important ...d's [[Greek language|Greek]] [[etymology]], not "mesotron" as Anderson had proposed. Bhabha later concluded that observations of the properties of the meson wo ...

...lisk was depicted in a blue field and a brown ''[[žagrė]]'' with a steel [[plowshare]] in the silver field at the bottom; the base of the shield was green-brown ...f name="HerboIstorija"/> The standard of the coat of arms of Panevėžys was proposed to be made by the artist Arvydas Každailis.<ref name="HerboIstorija"/> Thus ...

...nd [[Quakers]] fleeing religious persecution in Europe brought with them [[plowshare]]s, [[gun]]s, and domesticated animals like [[cow]]s and [[pig]]s. These im ...the issuance of [[Municipal bond|bonds]].{{sfn|Cowan|1997|p=102}} When the project was completed in 1825, the canal linked [[Lake Erie]] with the [[Hudson Riv ...