Nevada Test Site
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 w...
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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...
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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 Neva...
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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 forwar...
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Nov 30 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on December 7 in history: 1916 - Herbert Asquith resigned as British prime minister
and was replaced by David Lloyd Georg...
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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 viola...
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At a busy border crossing, a truck passing through a radiation scanner sets off an alarm. It could be a nuclear device, but it's far more likely to be kitty litter, ceramic tile or a load of banana...
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Las Vegas
residents get aggravated when they're tied up in traffic on local streets and roads.Now, people who ride in taxis will have reason to be even more aggravated because they'll have to pa...
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Private security guards paid little more than janitors and restaurant cooks are guarding many of the critical security sites in the United States, usually with minimal or no anti-terrorist training...
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Shag CrawfordNEW YORK (AP) _ Longtime major league umpire Shag Crawford, patriarch of a family of prominent sports officials, has died. He was 90.Crawford died Wednesday at an assisted living facil...
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Nevada Test Site
Engineer says bomb test plan incomplete
