[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  KNOWLEDGE WORM 🐛 [@Knowledge_worm](/creator/twitter/Knowledge_worm) on x 14.1K followers Created: 2025-07-21 15:13:01 UTC In 1963, a gas well in Southern Uzbekistan suffered a blowout at a depth of XXX kilometers. The natural gas caught fire and burned steadily for the next three years. This seemingly unquenchable fire was causing the loss of more than XX million cubic meters of gas each day. That’s enough to supply the needs of many major cities, and roughly the equivalent volume of XX Empire State buildings. No one in the country knew how to put the fires out, and by 1966 all attempts to do so had failed. It was at this point of desperation that dropping a nuclear bomb on the fires seemed like a pretty great idea to engineers and officials. Physicists calculated that if a nuclear bomb was detonated at a depth of around 1500 meters and close to the shaft of the well, the resulting pressure could blow out the fire. Researchers ultimately calculated that the bomb needed to be XX kilotons, or double the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. After confirming the calculations, officials decided that a nuclear explosion was the best way to stop the raging fire. In 1966, two boreholes were drilled, sloping towards the blowout region, determined to be at a depth of XXX kilometers. The XX kiloton bomb was lowered into the most promising borehole and then the well itself was backfilled with cement. There’s no better way to understand what that day was like other than this account from the Soviet newspaper Pravda Vostoka of Tashkent: “On that cold autumn day in 1966, an underground tremor of unprecedented force shook the [ground] with a sparse grass cover on white sand. A dusty haze rose over the desert. The orange colored torch of the blazing well diminished, first slowly, then more rapidly, until it flickered and finally died out. For the first time in XXXXX days, quiet descended on the area. The jet-like roar of the gas well had been silenced.” In XX seconds, a 3-year-long fire had been extinguished using a nuclear explosion, much to the satisfaction of Soviet engineers. XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [empire](/topic/empire) [uzbekistan](/topic/uzbekistan) [Post Link](https://x.com/Knowledge_worm/status/1947313872794452370)
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KNOWLEDGE WORM 🐛 @Knowledge_worm on x 14.1K followers
Created: 2025-07-21 15:13:01 UTC
In 1963, a gas well in Southern Uzbekistan suffered a blowout at a depth of XXX kilometers. The natural gas caught fire and burned steadily for the next three years. This seemingly unquenchable fire was causing the loss of more than XX million cubic meters of gas each day. That’s enough to supply the needs of many major cities, and roughly the equivalent volume of XX Empire State buildings.
No one in the country knew how to put the fires out, and by 1966 all attempts to do so had failed. It was at this point of desperation that dropping a nuclear bomb on the fires seemed like a pretty great idea to engineers and officials.
Physicists calculated that if a nuclear bomb was detonated at a depth of around 1500 meters and close to the shaft of the well, the resulting pressure could blow out the fire. Researchers ultimately calculated that the bomb needed to be XX kilotons, or double the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
After confirming the calculations, officials decided that a nuclear explosion was the best way to stop the raging fire. In 1966, two boreholes were drilled, sloping towards the blowout region, determined to be at a depth of XXX kilometers. The XX kiloton bomb was lowered into the most promising borehole and then the well itself was backfilled with cement.
There’s no better way to understand what that day was like other than this account from the Soviet newspaper Pravda Vostoka of Tashkent:
“On that cold autumn day in 1966, an underground tremor of unprecedented force shook the [ground] with a sparse grass cover on white sand. A dusty haze rose over the desert. The orange colored torch of the blazing well diminished, first slowly, then more rapidly, until it flickered and finally died out. For the first time in XXXXX days, quiet descended on the area. The jet-like roar of the gas well had been silenced.”
In XX seconds, a 3-year-long fire had been extinguished using a nuclear explosion, much to the satisfaction of Soviet engineers.
XXXXXX engagements
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