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Urtabulak gas field

1966 CE · Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Asia · Disaster

The Urtabulak gas field is a natural gas field located in South Uzbekistan near the Uzbekistan–Turkmenistan border. It was the site of a natural gas well blowout which led to the first use of a nuclear bomb to seal the well.

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