The town halls will be held Tuesday at Texas Station in North Las Vegas and Thursday at the Nugget Hotel in Pahrump. Both meetings are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Posted on: Local , Military , Nevada ...

The Nevada National Security Site, formerly known as the Nevada Test Site, was the site of over 900 nuclear detonations between 1951 and 1992. VIEW E-EDITION 25¢ for 3 mos ...

The mushroom clouds that appeared over the Nevada desert were a spectacular tourist attraction — at least initially. After the first nuclear device was detonated at the Nevada Test Site on this ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah -- When the baby boomers of St. George were children, radioactive ash from nuclear test explosions in Nevada regularly drifted toward the red bluffs of their town and fell like ...

The Official Story: Reacting to high costs to test weapons of mass destruction in the Pacific, President Truman established this Rhode Island-sized test site in 1950. Between 1951 and 1962, 126 ...

BIG SHOT: The 280mm atomic cannon firing a 15-kiloton nuclear-tipped shell at the Nevada Test Site in May 1953. It was one of 928 atomic tests at the spot just outside Las Vegas between 1951 and 1992.

Nevada National Security Site spokeswoman Tracy Bower said Thursday that the fire covers almost 4 square miles (10 square kilometers) in the western part of what used to be the Nevada Test Site.

When the baby boomers of St. George were children, radioactive ash from nuclear test explosions in Nevada regularly drifted toward the red bluffs of their town and fell like snow. They played in ...

Then the bus dipped into the 80-foot-deep crater formed in 1963. “Whee!” passengers shouted, as if on a rollercoaster. The bus kicked up dust and heaved past a sign: CAUTION RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL.

The U.S. Air Force tested a B-61 on the Nevada Test and Training Range. Between Jun. 29 and Jul. 1, the Air Force Nuclear Weapons center tested a (dummy) B61 nuke weapon on the Nevada Test and ...

Believe it or not, you can take tours of what’s known as the “Nevada National Security Site,” including Doom Town. But it’s booked up for 2023. Article content ...

The government opened the Nevada Test Site (now called the Nevada National Security Site) in 1951, long before the nearby desert town was transformed into the Times Square of the west.