#82331: Ludlow

A brass plaque on a concrete base approximately five-feet tall commemorates
Project Plowshare, a proposal of the Atomic Energy Commission. Under Project
Plowshare, a feasibility study was conducted for Project Carryall in 1963. The
plan was to detonate 22 nuclear explosions totaling 1.8 megatons to excavate a
cut for construction of Interstate 40 and a new rail line. The project was dropped
in 1968.