United States participation included Cause_to_be_included the establishment of pressure measurement equipment and the loan of photographic and instrumentation equipment , some of which had been used Using in the 1962 Project Plowshare .

It was part of the Operation Mandrel weapons test series under the name Mandrel Rulison , as well as the Operation Plowshare project which explored Scrutiny peaceful engineering uses of nuclear explosions .

This was the second of three natural-gas-reservoir stimulation test in the Plowshare program .

It was part of Operation Plowshare , a program designed to find Know peaceful uses for nuclear explosions .

Soon after that test the ~ 15-year Project Plowshare program funding dried up .