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FOXNews.com - Legacy of 1969 underground nuclear blast in Colorado lingers amid modern oil and gas rush: "In 1969, the government detonated a subterranean nuclear bomb to break loose natural gas deposits from tight sandstone formations more than 8,000 feet below ground on a Colorado mountain. The bomb was twice as powerful as the one that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.
The scheme worked — to an extent. The gas was unlocked by the blast but was deemed too radioactive for commercial use."
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