In 1967 , as part of a joint U.S. Government-El Paso Electric operation , an underground nuclear detonation occurred east of Farmington and about south of Dulce , New Mexico in present-day Carson National Forest . This pilot project of Operation Plowshare , code-named Project Gasbuggy , was an attempt to fracture a large volume of underground bedrock to make more natural gas available for extraction by gas wells
Project Gasbuggy
Project Gasbuggy
Farmington, New Mexico