Pristine Salt Block
name: label: maker
content: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
notes: label: Description
content: Block of pristine salt in a wooden box. A paper label reads in part “PROJECT GNOME PLOWSHARE PROGRAM / SALT TAKEN FROM CHAMBER IN WHICH / THE GNOME DEVICE WAS / EXPLODED DEC. 10, 1961.”
label: Description
content: Project Plowshare was a U.S. program designed to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes. Project Gnome, the first nuclear test of Project Plowshare, was conducted in Southeast New Mexico, on Dec. 10, 1961.
label: Description
content: Ref: Defense Nuclear Agency, Projects Gnome and Sedan: The Plowshare Program, (Washington D.C.: Defense Nuclear Agency, 1983).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Mexico, Los Alamos
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.N-08260
label: catalog number
content: N-08260
label: accession number
content: 243706
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chemical Sample, Pristine Salt, Plowshare Program