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    The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department...
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    Sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in Area 10 of Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site on July 6, 1962, as part of Operation...
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    Flats and nearby Nevada Test Site 400. Today, the site is governed by the United States Department of Energy. As part of the test site, the village is...
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    United States had established a dedicated test site on its own territory (Nevada Test Site) and was also using a site in the Marshall Islands (Pacific Proving...
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    southeast of Tonopah, Nevada. It is part of the northern fringe of the Nellis Range, measuring 625 sq mi (1,620 km2). Tonopah Test Range is located about...
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    basin in the Nevada National Security Site south of Yucca Flat and north of Mercury, Nevada. The flat was used as an American nuclear test site and has a...
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    The Semipalatinsk Test Site or Semipalatinsk-21 (Russian: Семипалатинск-21; Kazakh: Семей-21, romanized: Semei-21), also known as "The Polygon", was the...
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    with the next continental US tests in 1951, set a precedent. In subsequent atmospheric nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site, United States Atomic Energy...
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    including 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests. Most of the tests took place at the Nevada Test Site (NNSS/NTS) and the Pacific Proving Grounds in...
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    Upshot-Knothole Grable (category Nevada Test Site nuclear explosive tests)
    deployment at 8:30am PDT (1530 UTC) on May 25, 1953, in Area 5 of the Nevada Test Site. The codename Grable was chosen because it is phonetic for the letter...
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    Area 51 (redirect from Area 51, Nevada)
    highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force...
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    Project Plowshare (category American nuclear weapons testing)
    of Yucca Flats, within the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site (NTS) in southern Nevada. The shot, "Sedan", displaced more than 12 million short...
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    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...
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    coordinates) The Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) is one of two military training areas at the Nellis Air Force Base Complex in Nevada and used by the...
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    Operation Plumbbob (category Nevada Test Site nuclear explosive tests)
    Plumbbob was a series of nuclear tests that were conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site, following Project 57, and preceding...
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    as a staff member of Nevada Desert Experience in Las Vegas at the Nevada Test Site now known as the Nevada National Security Site, Rice participated in...
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    BREN Tower (category Nevada Test Site)
    mast, 1,527 ft (465 m) high, on the Nevada Test Site in Nevada, USA. "BREN" stands for "Bare Reactor Experiment, Nevada." The structure was owned by the...
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    States Department of Energy's (DOE) Nevada National Security Site (formerly called the Nevada Test Site or the Nevada Proving Ground). In the spring of...
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    these tests in 1950, but the site was later deemed unsuitable and the tests were moved to the Nevada Test Site. The first underground nuclear test was conducted...
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  • Project 56 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...
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    both about 4 miles (6 km) to the west, and Yucca Mountain and the Nevada Test Site are about 18 miles (29 km) to the east. Before the arrival of non-indigenous...
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  • fallout of above-ground nuclear testing in the Yucca Flats/Nevada Test Site. Winds routinely carried the fallout of these tests directly through St. George...
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    condition. In effect the Nevada Test Site became Britain's test ground, subject only to advance planning and integrating their testing into that of the United...
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    of them taking place at sites in the Pacific Ocean, over 900 of them at the Nevada Test Site, and ten on miscellaneous sites in the United States (Alaska...
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    Nevada Test Site. Shot Divider of Operation Julin on 23 September 1992, at the Nevada Test Site, was the last U.S. nuclear test. Described as a "test...
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    coordinates) Operation Teapot was a series of 14 nuclear test explosions conducted at the Nevada Test Site in the first half of 1955. It was preceded by Operation...
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    [citation needed] It was the test site of nuclear-powered rocket engines during project Project Rover and NERVA.: 109  Beatty, Nevada–California, 30x60 Minute...
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    Protesters are Arrested at Nevada Nuclear Test Site New York Times, 6 February 1987. 493 Arrested at Nevada Nuclear Test Site New York Times, 20 April 1992...
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    W54 (section Testing)
    1.7 miles (2.7 km) from the launch point. This test was the last atmospheric test at Nevada Test Site and was performed in conjunction with Operation...
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    United States portal Nevada Test Site at fas.org Nevada Test Site Areas 25-30 at globalsecurity.org MX Missile Trench Breakout Test in Area 25 36°48′N 116°18′W...
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