He was a member of the 4461st Security Police Squadron based at the highly classified Tonopah Test Range in remote Nevada where he ... intended to compensate DOE nuclear weapons workers who ...
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 ...
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.
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.