However, the Soviet Union did in fact manage to put nuclear explosions to good use for civilian ends. One of the first examples was using a nuke to plug an out-of-control gas well in the mid 1960s.

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"All of this is to help further our goal of monitoring nuclear explosions better and understanding ... PE1 will be released to a public seismic database after two years. "We want this to be ...