The Nevada Test Site (NTS) is one of two locations (the South Pacific being the other) at which the United States has conducted the majority of its nuclear weapons tests. The site was chosen for weapons testing in December 1950 by President Harry S....

The Nevada Test Site is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the City of Las Vegas, near 37°07′N, 116°03′W. Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Ground, the site,...

An air-quality engineer says government plans for a huge non-nuclear blast at the Nevada Test Site failed to consider the possibility that the explosion will kick up fine radioactive dust and carry it hundreds of miles.A federal official agreed and said the engineer's objections will...

Facing stiff opposition from two Western states, the Pentagon on Thursday scrapped plans for a 700-ton non-nuclear test blast that would have produced the first mushroom cloud of dust over the Nevada desert in decades.The Defense Department said it would find other ways to test...

After $30 million in taxpayer spending, work on a government project developing high-tech sensors to detect radiation at ports or border crossings is mired in mismanagement with no clear way forward, a federal audit said Monday.The project, slated for completion last February, is being built...

Taxi industry regulators say they'll keep a close watch on driver trip sheets after two union representatives said some companies were allowing drivers to work more than 12 hours at a time in violation of state law.Representatives of the United Steelworkers and the Industrial Technical...