Project Gasbuggy was an underground nuclear detonation carried out by the United States Atomic Energy Commission on December 10, 1967 in rural northwestern New Mexico.

[1] Gasbuggy was carried out by the Lawrence Livermore Radiation Laboratory and the El Paso Natural Gas Company, with funding from the Atomic Energy Commission.

Its purpose was to determine if nuclear explosions could be useful in fracturing rock formations for natural gas extraction.

In 1978, a marker monument was installed at the Surface Ground Zero (SGZ) point that provided basic explanation of the historic test.

Following the Project Gasbuggy test, two subsequent nuclear explosion fracturing experiments were conducted in western Colorado in an effort to refine the technique.