page_title: Project Chariot
hierarchical_section_title: Project Chariot
context_page_description: Project Chariot was a 1958 US Atomic Energy Commission proposal to construct an artificial harbor at Cape Thompson on the North Slope of the U.S. state of Alaska by burying and detonating a string of nuclear devices.
context_section_description: Project Chariot was a 1958 US Atomic Energy Commission proposal to construct an artificial harbor at Cape Thompson on the North Slope of the U.S. state of Alaska by burying and detonating a string of nuclear devices.
caption: One of the Chariot schemes involved chaining five thermonuclear devices to create the artificial harbor.
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