Scott L. Kirsch
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Proving Grounds
Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving
Rutgers University Press
In Proving Grounds, Scott Kirsch traces the rise and fall of this astonishing cold war initiative. He examines the work that went into making “geographical engineering” or “earthmoving” an imminent possibility as well as the public controversy, scientific uncertainty, and political opposition that kept it—with the exception of several massive craters in the Nevada desert—out of the landscape.