Across an expanse of the Nevada desert, in the center of the state, lies a volcanic crater reaching 3,280 feet in width and 427 feet in depth. It is now extinct — its last-known eruption ...

Many exposed to radioactive fallout from above-ground nuclear testing in Nevada, Utah and Arizona ... The 1,280-feet wide Sedan Crater was created by the Sedan detonation in 1962 as part of ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., have filed companion bills in the House and Senate to prevent nuclear testing at the Nevada National Security Site north of Las Vegas. The bills ...

as the Nevada Proving Grounds, the only peacetime, above ground nuclear testing site in the continental United States. It had been deemed necessary to conduct tests on nuclear devices in order ...

But the justices' debate over the Texas case invited discussion of a site in another state: Nevada. Texas and a Texas-based oil and gas extraction organization argued the Nuclear Regulatory ...

TASS/. An underground blast carried out at a US nuclear test site in Nevada represented a political message for Moscow to remain vigilant, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.