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The USSR Once Detonated a Nuclear Bomb to Put Out a Burning Gas Well

This rare historical footage from 1966 shows the moment a 30-Kiloton nuclear bomb is detonated thousands of feet below the surface in order to extinguish a fire in a natural gas field in the former Soviet Union, specifically Utra-Bulak in Uzbekistan.
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