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Nonfiction: Plumbob Ranier nuclear test -- Nevada test site -- Dust was raised both by a shock wave traveling to the surface on the side of the detonation and was also raised by rolling rocks. Heat-created air currents raised the dust several hundred feet into the air.

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Fiction cross-reference

• Clandestiphrine
• Crimes against physical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Plumbob Ranier (nonfiction)

External links:

• [Operation Plumbob] @ Wikipedia
• Underground nuclear weapons testing @ Wikipedia

Attribution: By Photo courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office - This image is available from the National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office Photo Library under number PLU-57-106.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12422553