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The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 [1] or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, [2] is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of Nye County, Nevada, about 65 mi (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas.
Area 9 (Nevada National Security Site) Area 10 (Nevada National Security Site) Area 11 (Nevada Test Site) Area 12 (Nevada National Security Site) Area 13 (NTS) Area 14 (Nevada National Security Site) Area 15 (Nevada National Security Site) Area 16; Area 17 (Nevada Test Site) Area 18 (Nevada National Security Site) Area 19 (Nevada National ...
Location of Pahute Mesa within the Nevada National Security Site. Pahute Mesa or Paiute Mesa is one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). It occupies 243 square miles (630 km 2) in the northwest corner of the NNSS in Nevada. The eastern section is known as Area 19 and the western section as Area 20.
Pages in category "Nevada Test Site nuclear explosive tests" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The museum opened in March 2005 as the "Atomic Testing Museum", operated by the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. It is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, at 755 E. Flamingo Rd., just north of Harry Reid International Airport and just east of the Las Vegas Strip. Funding included support from purchasing ...
Area 2 was the site of 144 tests comprising 169 detonations. [1] Shot "Gabbs" a detonation test, was intended for early 1993 but was cancelled in 1992 due to a pre-emptive stop of testing based around the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. [2]
Operation Project 56 [1] was a series of 4 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1955–1956 at the Nevada Test Site. These tests followed the Operation Wigwam series and preceded the Operation Redwing series.
Operation Buster–Jangle was a series of seven (six atmospheric, one cratering) nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States in late 1951 at the Nevada Test Site. Buster–Jangle was the first joint test program between the DOD (Operation Buster) and Los Alamos National Laboratories (Operation Jangle).