The USSR Once Detonated a Nuclear Bomb to Put Out a Burning Gas Well

This rare historical footage from 1966 shows the moment a 30-Kiloton nuclear bomb is detonated thousands of feet below the surface in order to extinguish a fire in a natural gas field in the former Soviet Union, specifically Utra-Bulak in Uzbekistan.

By dr_oz

Published 4 years ago in Wow

This rare historical footage from 1966 shows the moment a 30-Kiloton nuclear bomb is detonated thousands of feet below the surface in order to extinguish a fire in a natural gas field in the former Soviet Union, specifically Utra-Bulak in Uzbekistan.
Scroll Down For More