It was the first successful test of an atomic weapon.
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A hazmat crew rolled into the suburban address and carefully dismantled a workspace that had been used by a 17-year-old Eagle Scout to create a primitive nuclear reactor.
It would flow out of control for 18 months. Over 9 million barrels of crude oil were spilled before the well could finally be contained. At its peak, the spill formed a 60-acre lake of oil.
It ignited the Texas oil boom and within a year over 500 oil and land companies were created.
In 1859 a semi-retired train conductor named Edwin Drake engineered the world's first successful oil drilling operation.