See rare photos of a secret lab where the US tested atomic bombs
The NNSA has recently given the public a rare glimpse into one of the secret nuclear labs where America used to test its ...
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Nuclear testing endangers us all
In addition to highlighting the need for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, Dave Crete’s story highlights the dangers of explosive nuclear testing (“Veteran telling the story of hidden ...
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Step inside the secret lab where America tests its nukes
In the middle of a dry lakebed northwest of Las Vegas ... a Mk-6D nuclear bomb from a height of 19,000 feet above the desert ...
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Iran supreme leader criticizes proposed nuclear talks with U.S., upending push to negotiation
We don’t want to be tough on anybody,” Trump added. “But they just can’t have a nuclear bomb.” Trump followed with another online message on Wednesday, saying: “Reports that the United ...
1958 Las Vegas military jet and passenger plane collision sparks the formation of the FAA
United Air Lines Flight 736, a DC-7 passenger plane carrying 47 people, had collided with an Air Force F-100F fighter jet ...
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America Must Prepare to Test Nuclear Weapons
nuclear testing was moved to sites—primarily the Nevada Test Site (now called the Nevada National Security Site), north of Las Vegas—deep underground, where nuclear effects could be better ...
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Investigation into the fatal plane-helicopter crash. And, future of nuclear testing
Thousands of feet underground, in a laboratory northwest of Las Vegas, the U.S. conducts some of its most sensitive nuclear weapons research. Nuclear testing seems like a Cold War relic ...
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Inside a top-secret US nuclear facility in the Nevada desert
A group of journalists were allowed to tour a weapons laboratory deep underground in Frenchman Flat, Nevada. NPR's science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel was among them.