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,...

Soviets visit Nevada nuclear-test site A delegation of 20 Soviet nuclear testing experts spent this week at the Nevada facility where the United States tests its nuclear weapons. The visit was part of a bilateral effort to develop on-site systems that monitor...

Despite the cessation of traditional nuclear weapons testing in Nevada, "sub-critical" dynamic testing of "special nuclear materials" has continued and the Nevada Test Site is maintained to resume the old-style buried-big-bang tests on relatively short notice. Likewise, protest and nonviolent direct actions that once...

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...