Claim: Project Gnome (delayed by the testing moratorium between the United States and the Soviet Union) was the first nuclear test of Project Plowshare.
Evidence: First announced in 1958, Gnome was delayed by the testing moratorium between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from November 1958 until September 1961, when the Soviet Union resumed nuclear testing, thus ending the moratorium. Project Gnome was the first nuclear test of Project Plowshare and was the first continental nuclear weapon test since Trinity to be conducted outside of the Nevada Test Site.