17 27 edt 13 february 2014. By daily mail reporter. Interactive map reveals craters blasted into the nevada desert during decades of nuclear weapons tests.
Visitors can count on accessing over 250 miles of the national security site including mercury nevada and sedan crater areas otherwise completely off limits to the general public. The nevada national security site formerly nevada test site is the area located 65 miles north of las vegas. Nevada played an important role in the testing of nuclear weapons during the atomic age the landscape of the state now bears the scars of that activity sometimes in spectacular ways.
You ll marvel at the largest man made crater from the atomic age in nevada. 27 plowshare experiments were conducted under the guise of. The sedan experiment was part of the plowshare program for peaceful uses of nuclear bombs testing the efficacy of nukes for excavation projects such as building a new canal to replace the panama canal.
Department of energy photograph. Sedan crater in foreground. Nuclear bomb craters at yucca flat nevada test site nevada.
See more ideas about nuclear test nevada nevada test site. Feb 15 2020 american nuclear test sites in new mexico nevada and the pacific. The national atomic testing museum.
Nevada national security site. It was only after studying nuclear bomb craters and the minerals found there that geologists concluded the energy and pressures that created barringer crater were too high to be from volcanic activity and therefore must have formed from a meteorite impact. Nuclear bomb craters in nevada february 26 2017 markosun military the nevada national security site nnss previously the nevada test site nts is a united states department of energy reservation located in southeastern nye county nevada about 65 miles 105 km northwest of the city of las vegas.
The nevada national security site n2s2 or nnss known as the nevada test site nts until august 23 2010 is a united states department of energy doe reservation located in southeastern nye county nevada about 65 miles 105 km northwest of the city of las vegas formerly known as the nevada proving grounds the site was established on january 11 1951 for the testing of nuclear devices.
Nuclear bomb craters nevada. Storax 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 plowshare a program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining cratering and other civilian purposes. The radioactive fallout from the test contaminated more us residents than any other nuclear test. The sedan crater located in nevada s area 51 test site usa was formed on july 6 1962 by a 104 kiloton nuclear explosion. Instead of testing for warfare purposes the bomb was intended to test the feasibility of using nuclear explosions for civilian purposes such as facilitating mining.
Instead of testing for warfare purposes the bomb was intended to test the feasibility of using nuclear explosions for civilian purposes such as facilitating mining. The sedan crater located in nevada s area 51 test site usa was formed on july 6 1962 by a 104 kiloton nuclear explosion. The radioactive fallout from the test contaminated more us residents than any other nuclear test.
Storax 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 plowshare a program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining cratering and other civilian purposes.
