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English: Buggy was the first nuclear row-charge experiment in the Plowshare Program (experiments to develop peaceful uses of nuclear explosives). The NTS experiment on March 12, 1968, consisted of simultaneous detonation of five 1.1-kiloton charges.
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Author Federal Government of the United States

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Project Gasbuggy detonation

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12 March 1968

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