There were many negative impacts from Project Plowshare 's 27 nuclear explosions . For example , the Project Gasbuggy site , located 55 miles east of Farmington , New Mexico , still contains nuclear contamination from a single subsurface blast in 1967 . Other consequences included blighted land , relocated communities , tritium-contaminated water , radioactivity , and fallout from debris being hurled high into the atmosphere . These were ignored and downplayed until the program was terminated in 1977 , due in large part to public opposition , after $ 770 million had been spent on the project
Project Gasbuggy
Project Gasbuggy
Peaceful nuclear explosion