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  2. 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 ...

  3. List of United States nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    First nuclear weapons test, conducted as part of the Manhattan Project. Tested the Mark 3 Fat Man design. Crossroads: 1946 2: 2: 2: 21 42: First postwar test series. Sandstone: 1948 3: 3: 3: 18 to 49 104: The first use of "levitated" cores made of oralloy. Tested components for Mark 4 design. Ranger: 1951 5: 5: 5: 1 to 22 40: First tests at the ...

  4. List of nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    In this instance, a 1280-feet-in-diameter and 320-feet-deep explosion crater, morphologically similar to an impact crater, was created at the Nevada Test Site. Shot Divider of Operation Julin on 23 September 1992, at the Nevada Test Site, was the last U.S. nuclear test.

  5. Creepy photos show a fake 1950s city filled with mannequins ...

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    In order to better understand the blast and thermal effects of a nuclear bomb, the US dropped a 16-kiloton bomb on a fake town in the middle of Nevada. Creepy photos show a fake 1950s city filled ...

  6. Nevada Test Site - Wikipedia

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    The final nuclear test detonation at site was Operation Julin's "Divider" on September 23, 1992, just prior to the moratorium ending all nuclear testing. [46] Divider was a safety experiment test shot that was detonated at the bottom of a shaft sunk into Area 3.

  7. Time is running out for American victims of nuclear tests ...

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    Maury and more than 400 other protesters, including the actor Martin Sheen, entered the perimeter of the Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, where the U.S. government detonated ...

  8. Exclusive: Satellite images show increased activity at ... - AOL

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    Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when ...

  9. German Village (Dugway Proving Ground) - Wikipedia

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    German village during tests of the M69 incendiary. German Village was the nickname for a range of mock houses constructed in 1943 by the U.S. Army in the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, roughly 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, in order to conduct experiments used for the bombing of Nazi Germany.