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:...
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The Beast of Yucca Flats (released to television as Atomic Monster: The Beast of Yucca Flats) is a 1961 B-movie horror film written and directed by Coleman...
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Nevada Test Site (redirect from Yucca Flat Test Site)
NV-28, "Nevada Test Site, Environmental Protection Agency Farm, Area 15, Yucca Flat, 10-2 Road near Circle Road, Mercury, Nye County, NV" HABS No. NV-28-A...
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Yucca brevifolia (also known as the Joshua tree, yucca palm, tree yucca, and palm tree yucca) is a plant species belonging to the genus Yucca. It is tree-like...
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features, for example, Yucca Flat or Henninger Flats. Flat is also used to describe other level geographic areas as mud flats or salt flats. Glade – Open area...
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Yucca Yucca, Arizona Yucca, California, alternate name of Muroc, California Yucca Flat, a nuclear test region within the Nevada Test Site Yucca Mountain...
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Frenchman Flat is a hydrographic basin in the Nevada National Security Site south of Yucca Flat and north of Mercury, Nevada. The flat was used as an American...
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a nuclear warhead. It was fired from an F-89J Scorpion fighter over Yucca Flats at the Nevada National Security Site. On the ground, the Air Force carried...
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Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Las Vegas. Located in the Great...
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(NTS) road network, with paved roads leading south to Mercury and west to Yucca Flat. Leading northeast from the lake, the wide and well-maintained Groom Lake...
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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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Buster Baker test was conducted at Yucca Flat in the daytime, meanwhile Ranger Able was conducted at Frenchman Flat in the nighttime. No motion picture...
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director. He was best known for his film trilogy consisting of The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961), The Skydivers (1963) and Red Zone Cuba (1966), all three of which...
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the Nevada Test Site (NTS) northwest of Las Vegas.[citation needed] The Yucca Flat section of the NTS is covered with subsidence craters resulting from the...
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Yucca pallida, sometimes called pale yucca, is a species of yucca native to Northern Mexico and parts of the blackland prairies of northern and central...
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at the recorded time of 04:05 (05:05 hrs ) hours, on May 19, 1953, in Yucca Flat, in the Nevada Test Site. The sponsor of the test was the National Laboratory...
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underground Baneberry test vented into the atmosphere. For descriptions, see Yucca Flat#Baneberry and List of military nuclear accidents#1970s A bomb test may...
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as part of Operation Upshot–Knothole. It took place on May 8, 1953 in Yucca Flat, in the Nevada Test Site. The test device, codenamed Encore, was detonated...
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kilotons. Information Country United States Test site NTS, Areas 1–4, 6–10, Yucca Flat Period 1951 Number of tests 7 Test type cratering, dry surface, free air...
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being 104 kiloton (435 terajoule) on July 6, 1962, at the north end of Yucca Flats, within the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site (NTS) in southern...
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Subsidence craters remaining after underground nuclear (test) explosions at the north end of the Yucca Flat, Nevada test site...
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USAF Captain Alfred C. Barbee (radar operator) flying an F-89J over Yucca Flats. Sources vary as to the height of the blast, but it was between 18,500...
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fact. He also appeared briefly as an airplane pilot in The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961). Brooks took a break from acting during the 1960s and 1970s, but...
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Country United States Test site NTS Areas 5, 11, Frenchman Flat NTS, Areas 1–4, 6–10, Yucca Flat Period 1955 Number of tests 14 Test type cratering, free...
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Country United States Test site NTS Areas 5, 11, Frenchman Flat NTS, Areas 1-4, 6-10, Yucca Flat Period 1953 Number of tests 11 Test type free air drop,...
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Country United States Test site NTS Areas 5, 11, Frenchman Flat NTS, Areas 1–4, 6–10, Yucca Flat Period 1952 Number of tests 8 Test type free air drop, tower...
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the "Salton Sea Test Base" and the Yucca Flat site, and in 1957 Sandia Laboratories began TTR operations at Cactus Flat. From 1956 to 1969–70, the Las Vegas...
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role; in the other two films he helmed, The Skydivers and The Beast of Yucca Flats, he limited his acting to cameos. Though John Carradine receives fourth...
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Yucca schidigera, also known as the Mojave yucca or Spanish dagger, is a perennial plant in the asaparagus family native to the southwestern United States...
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Area 12, Rainier Mesa NTS Area 19, 20, Pahute Mesa NTS, Areas 1–4, 6–10, Yucca Flat Period 1991–1992 Number of tests 7 Test type underground shaft, tunnel...
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