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PEACEFUL USES OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVES (PLOWSHARE) 39 tion; the use of radioisotopes in industry for thickness gauging of sheet materials, and in medicine for cancer diagnosis and therapy. It shows medical reactors and explains photosynthesis research. FUELS AND PROCESSING THE ALCHEMIST'S DREAM (Challenge Series). . . . See page 49 INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVES (1958). 11 minutes, color. Produced by the USAEC's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California. For sale by Byron Motion Pictures, at $34.54 per print, including shipping case, F.O.B. Washington, D. C. This semitechnical film, for intermediate through college-level audi- ences, presents potential industrial applications of nuclear explosives. It suggests that nuclear explosives can be used as safely as chemical explosives, but with greater effect and less cost. Examples include harbor development, economical recovery of low-grade ore bodies, release of petroleum from oil shale, underground production of steam to generate power, and development of large underground reservoirs in arid areas. PROJECT GNOME (1963). 29 minutes, color. Produced by USAEC's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California. For sale by W. A. Palmer Films, at $139.83 per print, including shipping case, F.O.B. San Fran- cisco. This film covers Project Gnome—the first nuclear detonation con- ducted under the USAEC's Plowshare Program for development of peaceful uses of nuclear explosives—from its planning stage through the early months of the post-detonation period when scientists en- tered the man-created cavern. Project Gnome was an experiment under the technical direction of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory involving the detonation on December 10, 1961, of a 3.1 kiloton nuclear explosive in a chamber about 1200 feet below the earth's surface in the Salado Salt Basin, a thick subsurface salt bed about 25 miles southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico. The force of the explosion created an under- ground cavern which today measures about 170 feet across and almost 90 feet high. Animation is used to explain the scope of Project Gnome and its integrated scientific and technical programs. Project Gnome, one of the most heavily instrumented nuclear detonations ever con- ducted, was designed to provide scientific and technical information on