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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.
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).
First tests at the Nevada Test Site. Operation originally named "Operation Faust". Greenhouse: 1951 4: 4: 4: 46 to 225 398: George shot was physics experiment relating to the hydrogen bomb; Item shot was first boosted fission weapon. Buster-Jangle: 1951 7: 7: 7: small to 31 72: The first series in which troop maneuvers (Desert Rock exercises ...
Project Shoal was an underground nuclear test that took place on October 26, 1963 within the Sand Springs Range, approximately 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Fallon, Nevada, [1] in a granite formation of the range. The site was selected because its earthquake activity afforded a basis for seismic signal comparisons.
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.
On this day in 1957, the first underground nuclear test was carried out at the Nevada Test Site, a 1,375 square-mile research center located 65 miles away from Las Vegas.The 1,7 kiloton nuclear ...
Operation Upshot–Knothole was a series of eleven nuclear test shots conducted in 1953 at the Nevada Test Site.It followed Operation Ivy and preceded Operation Castle.. Over 21,000 soldiers took part in the ground exercise Desert Rock V in conjunction with the Upshot-Knothole Grable shot. [1]
The Tumbler-Snapper detonations included some particularly fallout-heavy weapons. Of particular note is shot George, which contaminated more citizens than any other nuclear test in the United States. George alone accounted for some 7 percent of all population exposure to radiation during the 1,032 nuclear tests performed by the United States ...