Reposted by Chris Stroupe
60 years ago today, the Soviet Union detonated a 30-kiloton nuclear device 5,026 feet underground to successfully extinguish a natural gas fire that had raged out of control for nearly three years in the Urta-Bulak gas field in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
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USSR used nuclear bombs to stop gas well blowouts
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