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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.
Test with "energy budget". Competition between UCRL and LASL over budget allocation was high. Project 57: 1957 1: 1: 1: 0 0: The first safety test, asking whether an improperly ignited bomb (as in a plane crash) would cause a nuclear blast. Plumbbob: 1957 29: 29: 25: 0 to 74 345: Included the largest atmospheric test in CONUS. Project 58+58A ...
Nevada National Security Site (formerly known as Nevada Test Site, NTS) A nuclear test site carved out of the Nevada Test and Training Range in Nye County, Nevada in 1952. Roughly the size of Rhode Island, it contains many terrains in which various bombs can be tested. Frenchman Flat, Areas 5, 11
Yucca Flat is a closed desert drainage basin, one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada Test Site (NTS), and is divided into nine test sections: Areas 1 through 4 and 6 through 10. Yucca Flat is located at the eastern edge of NTS, about ten miles (16 km) north of Frenchman Flat , and 65 miles (105 km) from Las Vegas, Nevada . [ 2 ]
Rainier Mesa is one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). [1] It occupies approximately 40 square miles (100 km 2) along the northern edge of the NNSS and corresponds to Area 12. [1] [2] The Rainier Mesa area consists of both Rainier Mesa proper and the contiguous Aqueduct Mesa. [3]
Frenchman Flat is a hydrographic basin in the Nevada National Security Site [2] south of Yucca Flat and north of Mercury, Nevada. The flat was used as an American nuclear test site and has a 5.8 sq mi (15 km 2 ) dry lake bed (Frenchman Lake) that was used as a 1950s airstrip before it was chosen after the start of the Korean War for the Nevada ...
Two sunken vessels from WWII were recently found off the coast of North Carolina. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered the Nazi U-boat 576 and the ...
In 1958, the Tonopah Test Range Airport was planned with a single runway of 19,000 ft (5,800 m). [25] In 1960, Camp Mercury was a base camp for Project 5.5 that studied nuclear detonation effect on the Northrop F-89D Scorpion (a similar Project 6.5 was for effect of nuclear detonations on the Nike Hercules missile system). [27]