On this day 74 years ago, nuclear testing kicked off at the Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles north of Las Vegas. This marked one of the most significant nuclear test sites in the nation.

An atomic test that took place on March 23, 1955, at the Nevada Test Site. In the 1950s, nuclear weapons were regularly detonated aboveground to see what the effects would be on people and buildings ...

In addition to highlighting the need for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, Dave Crete’s story highlights the dangers of explosive nuclear testing ...

Some estimates from the Department of Energy (DOE) suggest that it could take three years to get the Nevada National Security Site ready to conduct a nuclear explosive test.REF However ...

Schwartz pointed to the calamitous damage caused by 100 nuclear devices being detonated at the Nevada test site where Peters suggested new blasts between 1951 and 1962. Communities downwind from ...

On this day 74 years ago, nuclear testing kicked off at the Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles north of Las Vegas.

An atomic test that took place on March 23, 1955, at the Nevada Test Site. In the 1950s, nuclear weapons were regularly detonated aboveground to see what the effects would be on people and ...