The site, formerly known as the Nevada Test Site until 2010 ... sought to prove that nuclear explosions could be used for peaceful purposes like dam construction or canals. It was added to ...

Photographers and reporters observe atomic explosion ... Nevada, once a part of the Nellis Air Force Base, as the Nevada Proving Grounds, the only peacetime, above ground nuclear testing site ...

The last nuclear test in the United States, Divider, happened on Sept. 23, 1992, at the Nevada Test Site. By that time, the government had conducted 928 nuclear tests and 1,021 detonations at the ...

Nevada Test Site was selected only after extensive ... providing optimum conditions for maintenance of safety. A nuclear explosion releases tremendous energy, equivalent in a so-called "nominal ...