What biotechnology and high-tech computers are today, atomic technology was in the 1950s and early 1960s. Our government and its industrial partners were determined to show the world that this technology was benign, no matter what the facts might be. Another plan was developed to blast a new canal across Central America with atomic bombs, simply to give the U.S. some leverage in negotiating with Panama over control of the Panama Canal. That plan, too, was scrapped. In 1967, an A-bomb was detonated underground in New Mexico, to release natural gas trapped in shale rock formations.
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