Plowshare Program : Peaceful Uses for Nuclear Explosives (open access)

Plowshare Program : Peaceful Uses for Nuclear Explosives

The concept of thermonuclear explosives as a potentially cheap and almost inexhaustible energy source for mankind's non military needs has for several years been under active consideration at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. Many of the proposed peaceful applications involve underground nuclear explosions, and several experiments at the AEC Nevada Test Site have provided valuable insight into the phenomenology of such explosions. Among the possible uses currently under consideration are excavation, heat production, isotope production, mining, recovery of oil from shales and tar sands, improvements of ground water supplies, and the construction of earth fill dams. In addition a program of experimental research in the laboratory and in the field is under way. Sometime in 1961 Project Gnome if approved will be conducted in New Mexico. The purpose of Gnome, a contained nuclear explosion in a salt deposit, is to study the feasibility of heat recovery and isotope production, neutron scattering experiments will also be included. Other proposed nuclear projects will involve the creation of a small harbor near Cape Thompson, Alaska as the result of an experiment designed to investigate the cratering effects of nuclear explosives; a proposal to investigate the recovery of oil from Canadian tar sands using thermonuclear …
Date: July 25, 1960
Creator: Lombard, David B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
San Antonio Annual Budget: 1969 (open access)

San Antonio Annual Budget: 1969

Annual budget of the city of San Antonio for Fiscal Year 1969.
Date: July 25, 1968
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-893 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-893

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Does the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners have the authority to prohibit Dentists from advertising in telephone directories by ads similar to the following: "False Teeth & Repairs - One Day Service."
Date: July 25, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-894 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-894

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Levy of taxes by rural fire prevention district for year during which district was created.
Date: July 25, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-895 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-895

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the names of certain corporations or proposed corporations indicate or imply a purpose to operate a title insurance company in contravention of Art. 2.05A(2), Texas Business Corporation Act.
Date: July 25, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1396 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1396

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Frank White farm, which has been designated by the Hood-Parker Soil Conservation District as an experimental farm, is exempt from ad valorem taxes under stated facts.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1398 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1398

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a City Councilman is disqualified from holding such office by virtue of being an officer of the depository bank where the city funds are deposited, and, if so, whether the County Attorney has a duty to institute removal proceedings.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1400 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1400

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the County Auditor should audit the books of the District Clerk concerning payments received as a result of divorce proceedings where the Court ordered one spouse to make child support payments to the District Clerk's office.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1401 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1401

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county may pave and maintain streets located within a municipality and related questions.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1403 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1403

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a nurse or a practitioner's assistant can dispense drugs or medicine to his patients under the practitioner's direction and supervision, and related question.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1404 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1404

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Chapter 6, Title 94, V.C.S., repealed Chapter 5, Title 94, V.C.S.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History