Transforming a rusted plowshare into a fully functional slingshot is a powerful demonstration of creativity, craftsmanship, and metalworking skill. Once a vital part of farming equipment, the ...

Various Plowshare ideas floated included using atomic bombs to cut a highway through southern California or duplicate the Panama Canal in Nicaragua, but they were deemed too big and too risky.

In April 1971 a young government official, Charles Freeman, returned to his post at the US State Department in Washington after spending two and half years studying Chinese in Taiwan. He then ...

In April 1971 a young government official, Charles Freeman, returned to his post at the US State Department in Washington after spending two and half years studying Chinese in Taiwan. He then ...

Project Plowshare's underground nuclear tests were conducted in the Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas. One 100-kiloton device was detonated 635 ft underground where it displaced 12 million tons ...

Physicist Edward Teller—part of the Project Plowshare team—appearing on Face the Nation, April 3, 1967. Photo by CBS/Getty Images. Copy Link Share Share Comment ...

The Plowshare program was both a public relations ploy and a serious scientific study. It was an attempt to see if nuclear bombs could be used in peaceful constructive ways. If it had been ...

A high-powered Magnetic Audio Device that was designed as a non-lethal weapon might have music-related uses, after a demonstration revealed that the music of Queen and Frank Sinatra sounded decent ...