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Origins Of The Nevada Test Site

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Author : Terrence R. Fehner
language : en
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Release Date : 2000

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Author : United States Department of Energy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-12

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Origins of the Nevada Test Site was written in conjunction with the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Nevada Test Site. The history was released at the official celebration held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 18, 2000, fifty years after President Harry S. Truman formally designated the site as the location for conducting nuclear weapons tests within the continental United States.

Origins Of The Nevada Test Site

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Author : United States Energy
language : en
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Release Date : 2000-12-29

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Origins of the Nevada Test Site was written in conjunction with the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Nevada Test Site. The history was released at the official celebration held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 18, 2000, fifty years after President Harry S. Truman formally designated the site as the location for conducting nuclear weapons tests within the continental United States. The history represents a unique partnership between a field office and two headquarters offices of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Department's Nevada Operations Office provided the initial impetus for the project and offered support and resources throughout the researching and writing of the history. The Office of Defense Programs of the Department's National Nuclear Security Administration provided funding for printing the history. The History Division of the Department's Executive Secretariat researched and wrote the history. Terrence R. Fehner is a senior historian working in the History Division. F.G. Gosling is the Department's Chief Historian and Federal Preservation Officer. The authors wish to thank the many individuals who offered comments, support, and assistance. They made this work possible and helped make it a better and more complete history. Retta Helling of the Nevada Operations Office and Jim Landers of the Office of Defense Programs served as the primary points of contact for their respective offices. Troy Wade, former assistant secretary for defense programs, provided the original inspiration for the project and tireless support throughout. Martha DeMarre at the Department's Coordination and Information Center in Las Vegas and her staff, especially Kristie Abromowitz and Carole Schoengold, provided the authors with hundreds of unpublished documents, reports, and photographs that became the core research material used in this study. They also reviewed the manuscript and offered sound advice on further avenues of research. Others who assisted the authors in obtaining research materials and photographs include Carolyn McKown, Bruce Harwood, Robert Perkins, Hannah King, and Rory Patterson at the U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, library; Robert Brewer and Roger Meade at the Los Alamos National Laboratory; Eric Moody and Lee Brumbaugh at the Nevada Historical Society; Kathy War and Su Kim Chung at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, library; Richard Reed at the Remote Sensing Laboratory; Gary Roush at History Associates Incorporated; Colleen Beck and Robert Jones at the Desert Research Institute; Cate Wilman and Timothy Parish at Nellis Air Force Base; Carolyn Cole at the Los Angeles Central Public Library; Gloria Parker at the U.S. Department of State; Lisa Coats at the Institute for Advanced Study in iii Princeton; Herman Wolk and David Chenoweth at the Air Force History and Museums Program; Mickey Russell at the Air Force Historical Research Agency; Charlotte Heatherly at the University of Nevada Press; Sharon Theobald at Kirtland Air Force Base; Pauline Testerman at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library; Elvis Brathwaite at AP Wide World Photos; Kathy Hopkins at TimePix; Remy Squires at the Hoover Institution. David Myrick and Alvin McLane gave the authors permission to use photographs from their personal collections. Frank Porcheddu of the Department's graphics office labored long and hard to turn the manuscript into a printable document. He was ably assisted by Gloria Hill. Betsy Scroger edited the manuscript and prepared the two montages of newspaper headlines that appear in the text. Cliff Scroger assisted the authors in many areas of research. Marie Hallion headed the effort to collect photographs, and without her determination to leave no stone unturned the history would be quite different in appearance. Finally, the authors would like to thank Jim Solit, director of the Executive Secretariat, for his constant and unwavering support of the History Division and its staff.

Origins Of The Nevada Test Site

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language : en
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Release Date : 2000

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The Nevada Test Site

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Author : Emmet Gowin
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-08

The Nevada Test Site written by Emmet Gowin and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Architecture categories.

"Emmet Gowin likes to ask a provocative question: "Which country on earth has had the largest number of nuclear bombs detonated within its borders?" The answer is the United States. Covering approximately 680 square miles, the Nevada National Security Site, formerly known as the Nevada Test Site, was the primary testing location of American nuclear devices from 1951 to 1992; 1,021 announced nuclear tests occurred there, 921 of which were underground. The site, which is closed to the public, including its airspace, contains 28 areas, 1,100 buildings, 400 miles of paved roads, 300 miles of unpaved roads, 10 heliports, and two airstrips. Its surface is covered with subsidence craters from testing, and in places looks like the moon. In 1996, Gowin received permission to document the landscape by air, after over a decade of working to secure access. These aerial views of environmental devastation--made quietly majestic but no less potent in the hands of a master photographer--unveil environmental travesties on a grand scale. While groups of images from the Nevada Test Site series have been published previously, this book will produce the largest number yet, and three quarters of the pictures will not have been published at all. Gowin is the only photographer to have been granted access to this site, which is now permanently closed, post-9/11. Other than images made by the government for geographic purposes, no other images of this landscape exist. The book will feature a preface by photographer Robert Adams (America, b. 1937), whose photographic and written work is concerned with landscape, urbanization, and activism. It will also feature an afterword by Gowin on how he made the images, and their significance to him today."--Provided by publisher.

Nevada Test Site Guide Official Reference To History Of Atmospheric And Underground Atomic And Nuclear Bomb Testing At Frenchman Flat With In

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Author : U. S. Military
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-03-02

Nevada Test Site Guide Official Reference To History Of Atmospheric And Underground Atomic And Nuclear Bomb Testing At Frenchman Flat With In written by U. S. Military and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-02 with Science categories.

This official guide to the atomic tests conducted at the Nevada nuclear test site provides fascinating details about the testing program of atmospheric and underground explosions. Contents: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Warning Poster * Nevada Test Site Map * Nuclear Tests Conducted at Frenchman Flat * VIP Bleachers * Grable Cannon Site * Short Pole Road * Gravel Gertie Site * Hazardous Materials Spill Center * Atmospheric Test Relics -- Introduction * Pig Pens * Windowless Modular Structure * Industrial Buildings * Coniferous Tree Stands * Metal Cylinders * Full-Scale Industrial Buildings * Open Framed Structures (Railroad Trestles) * Garage/Shelter * Bank Vault * Concrete Structure * Gun Direction Tower * MET (Military Effects Test) Ground Zero * Domed Shelters Concrete and Aluminum * Community Shelters * Launch Site * Free Standing Windows * Glass House * U.S. Army M-47 Tank * Sugar Bunker * Cambric Research Site * FACE (Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Facility) * Ship of the Desert (Diagonal Line Test) * Atmospheric Test Vehicle Graveyard * Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site * Device Assembly Facility * Atmospheric Vehicle Graveyard * Control Point * Yucca Air Strip * News Nob * Camera Towers * Reflector Tower * Fortune Training Tower * Weather Station * Electronic Pulse Tower * Airborne Response Team (ART) Hanger * Joint Test Organization Forward Area Support Facilities * Heavy Equipment Yard * Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit * Tweezer Facility * Technical Facility * Plutonium Valley * U1a Complex * Apple-2 Ground Zero * Structural Response Towers * Drill Yard * Shaker Plant * Annie Ground Zero * Bilby Ground Zero * Huron King Test Chamber * Radioactive Waste Management Site * Apple-1 Ground Zero * Japanese Houses and BREN Tower Site * Big Explosives Experimental Facility * Buried Objects Detection Facility * Boltzmann Ground Zero * Icecap Ground Zero * Calibration Gun Turret * Hood Ground Zero * Kuchen * Balloon Tests - Owens, Wheeler, Charleston and Morgan Ground Zero * Drill-Back Training Area * Smoky Ground Zero * Baneberry Ground Zero * Gabbs * Sedan Crater * United States Environmental Protection Agency Farm * Hard Hat and Pile Driver Ground Zero * Spent Fuel Test (Climax Mine) * E-Tunnel

A Brief History Of The Nevada Test Site And Nuclear Rocket Development Station Of The Atomic Energy Commission

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Author : Elizabeth Menke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

A Brief History Of The Nevada Test Site And Nuclear Rocket Development Station Of The Atomic Energy Commission written by Elizabeth Menke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.

Nevada Test Site

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Author : Peter W. Merlin
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2016

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"Since Pres. Harry Truman established the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in December 1950, it has played a vital role in the security of the United States. For four decades, the test site's primary purpose was developmental testing of nuclear explosives. Atmospheric tests conducted over Yucca Flat and Frenchman Flat between 1951 and 1962 involved thousands of Army troops and Marines simulating nuclear battlefield conditions. Civil defense planners studied blast and radiation effects and evaluated bomb shelter designs. Testing moved underground in 1963 to eliminate radioactive fallout. Other projects at the NTS included nuclear rocket engine development for space travel, training for NASA's Apollo astronauts, excavation experiments, radioactive waste storage studies, and aircraft testing. Since the last underground nuclear test in 1992, this geographically diverse testing and training complex north of Las Vegas--known since 2010 as the Nevada National Security Site--has been used to support nuclear stockpile stewardship and as a unique outdoor laboratory for government and industry research and development efforts."--Page 4 of cover.

Battlefield Of The Cold War The Nevada Test Site Volume I Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing 1951 1963 Fallout And Radiation Concerns From Moratorium To Test Ban Treaty Hydrogen Bomb Tests

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Author : U. S. Department of Energy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-05

Battlefield Of The Cold War The Nevada Test Site Volume I Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing 1951 1963 Fallout And Radiation Concerns From Moratorium To Test Ban Treaty Hydrogen Bomb Tests written by U. S. Department of Energy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-05 with categories.

This is a comprehensive history of an important chapter in the history of the Cold War, American atmospheric atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site and elsewhere, providing unique insight into the successes, failures, and controversies of the program. Contents: Introduction: Operation Big Shot, April 22, 1952 * Part I: Origins of the Nevada Test Site * Part II: Early Atmospheric Testing, 1951-1952 * Part III: The Trials and Tribulations of Atmospheric Testing, 1953-1954 * Part IV: Atmospheric Testing in the Balance, 1955-1956 * Part V: Atmospheric Testing Comes to a Close, 1957-1958 * Epilogue: From Moratorium to Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty, 1958-1963 * Appendix: United States Nuclear Tests, 1945-1958 * Acronyms and Abbreviations * Endnotes Here is an excerpt: Operation Big Shot was a smashing success. As Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean observed as he watched Charlie's multicolored mushroom cloud rising overhead, "it was a pretty sizeable bang for this country." More sobering was Federal Civil Defense Administrator Millard Caldwell's assessment of Charlie, a relatively small device compared to the megaton weapons that would follow. "A bomb of this kiloton force," he noted, "would have claimed one-half million casualties in New York from blast, fire and radiation effects." Nonetheless, weapon scientists, military officials, and the media, even with some mixed feelings as to the uses that might be made of the "spectacular display," all emerged well-satisfied with the results. Despite the faulty television reception, the American people also had gained a clearer notion of the significance of the events that were taking place at the test site. And significant they were. From 1951 through 1958, the United States conducted 120 tests at the Nevada Test Site. These tests directly contributed to the creation and manufacture of bigger, smaller, better, and safer nuclear weapons that greatly enhanced the capabilities of the nation's security forces and helped deter an all-out hot war. Warheads from a few kilotons to multi-megaton yields, warheads for bombs, guided missiles, ballistic missiles, depth charges, and hand-held bazookas were developed, refined, and stockpiled. On the downside, nuclear weapons testing also produced airborne radioactivity that fell outside the test site and, as the decade progressed, a worldwide uproar and clamoring for a ban on all tests. This combination of off-site radioactivity and an increasingly wary public ultimately would prove to be the undoing of atmospheric testing.

20th Century Atomic Bomb And Nuclear Weapon History Manhattan Project And The Nevada Test Site Official History Documents

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Author : Department of Energy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-17

20th Century Atomic Bomb And Nuclear Weapon History Manhattan Project And The Nevada Test Site Official History Documents written by Department of Energy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-17 with Nevada Test Site (Nev.) categories.

Learn about the history of America's development and testing of nuclear weapons from this reproduction of two important Energy Department publications: The Manhattan Project - Making the Atomic Bomb, and Origins of the Nevada Test Site. Each publication provides exclusive details of the extraordinary development program known as the Manhattan Project and the subsequent early days of the Cold War. This makes a superb reference work for military enthusiasts, researchers, libraries, schools, students, and home reference! "The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb" is a history of the origins and development of the American atomic bomb program during World War II. Beginning with the scientific developments of the pre-war years, the monograph details the role of United States government in conducting a secret, nationwide enterprise that took science from the laboratory and into combat with an entirely new type of weapon. The monograph concludes with a discussion of the immediate postwar period, the debate over the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and the founding of the Atomic Energy Commission. Origins of the Nevada Test Site was written in conjunction with the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Nevada Test Site. The history was released at the official celebration held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 18, 2000, fifty years after President Harry S. Truman formally designated the site as the location for conducting nuclear weapons tests within the continental United States. The history represents a unique partnership between a field office and two headquarters offices of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Department's Nevada Operations Office provided the initial impetus for the project and offered support and resources throughout the researching and writing of the history. The Office of Defense Programs of the Department's National Nuclear Security Administration provided funding for printing the history. The History Division of the Department's Executive Secretariat researched and wrote the history. Contents include: The Manhattan Project - Making the Atomic Bomb - Introduction: The Einstein Letter; Part I: Physics Background, 1919-1939; Part II: Early Government Support; Part III: The Manhattan Engineer District; Part III: The Manhattan Engineer District in Operation; Part V The Atomic Bomb and American Strategy; Part VI: The Manhattan District in Peacetime; Manhattan Project Chart; Manhattan Project Chronology. Origins of the Nevada Test Site - Dropping the Bomb: The Able Shot * Part I: The Nevada Test Site: Description and Early History * Part II: The Birth of the Nuclear Age, 1919-1947 * The Trinity Test * Part III: The Search for a Continental Test Site, 1947-1950 * Sandstone * Fallout and the Continental Test Site * Part IV: Preparing to Test, December 1950-January 1951 * Going Public * Public and Press Reaction * Part V: The Ranger Series, January-February 1951 * Logistics * Official Visitors * Radiological Safety * Able's Aftermath * Baker Is Bigger * Part VI: Legacy of the Nevada Test Site * Permanentization of the Test Site * Atoms for War and Peace * Battleground of the Cold War This is a privately authored news service and educational publication of Progressive Management.