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  2. List of United States nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    The United States conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests by official count, including 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests. [ 1 ] [ notes 1 ] Most of the tests took place at the Nevada Test Site (NNSS/NTS) and the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands and off Kiritimati Island in the Pacific, plus three in the Atlantic Ocean.

  3. List of nuclear weapon explosion sites - Wikipedia

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    It includes nuclear test sites, nuclear combat sites, launch sites for rockets forming part of a nuclear test, and peaceful nuclear test (PNE) sites. There are a few non-nuclear sites included, such as the Degelen Omega chemical blast sites, which are intimately involved with nuclear testing. Listed with each is an approximate location and ...

  4. Yuma Proving Ground - Wikipedia

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    Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) is a United States Army series of environmentally specific test centers with its Yuma Test Center (YTC) being one of the largest military installations in the world.

  5. List of nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    For nuclear weapon tests, a salvo is defined as two or more underground nuclear explosions conducted at a test site within an area delineated by a circle having a diameter of two kilometers and conducted within a total period of time of 0.1 second.

  6. Downwinders - Wikipedia

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    Downwinders were individuals and communities in the intermountain West between the Cascade and Rocky Mountain ranges primarily in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah but also in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho who were exposed to radioactive contamination or nuclear fallout from atmospheric or underground nuclear weapons testing, and nuclear accidents.

  7. Atomic tourism - Wikipedia

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    Tourists at ground zero, Trinity site. Atomic tourism or nuclear tourism is a form of tourism in which visitors witness nuclear tests or learn about the Atomic Age by traveling to significant sites in atomic history such as nuclear test reactors, museums with nuclear weapon artifacts, delivery vehicles, sites where atomic weapons were detonated, and nuclear power plants.

  8. Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station - Wikipedia

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    The Palo Verde Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located near Tonopah, Arizona [5] about 45 miles (72 km) west of downtown Phoenix.Palo Verde generates the most electricity of any power plant in the United States per year, and is the largest power plant by net generation as of 2021. [6]

  9. United States Department of Energy National Laboratories

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    In the course of the war, the Allied nuclear effort, the Manhattan Project, created several secret sites for the purpose of bomb research and material development, including a laboratory in the mountains of New Mexico directed by Robert Oppenheimer , and sites at Hanford, Washington and Oak Ridge, Tennessee.