Nevada’s amazing. It is close to the city, and to California, but what about Pyramid Lake, what about the Sedan Crater, what about Wheeler Peak? What about these places?” said Cividino.

Nuclear novelties neighbor Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Sedan Crater was formed with a 100-kiloton nuclear explosive device. The device was buried 635 feet below the desert alluvium and was fired at ...

Nevada Test Site historian Ernie Williams stands on the observation deck for the Sedan crater, created from a 104-kiloton nuclear blast on July 6, 1962, on Jan. 11, 2011. (Associated Press) ...

Remains of the Sedan crater excavation experiment, detonated on July 6, 1962, within the Nevada National Security Test Site are pictured in June 2019.

One crater is instantly noticeable from above: This is the granddaddy of them all, the Sedan Crater, which was made on July 6, 1962, during Operation Plowshare—an Army project that sought to ...

Yucca Flat, situated in the Nevada Desert, features one of the most crater-laden landscapes on Earth. Watch the amazing footage taken by Landsat 8 of these amazing craters, including the Sedan ...

Tourists at the Nevada Test Site on April 17 look out over the Sedan Crater, a massive caved-in area left behind by an underground atomic explosion in 1962. Photo by: Sam Morris ...

Project Sedan, a Plowshare Program test that promoted the application of nuclear explosives to develop peaceful uses for atomic energy, was conducted at the Nevada Test Site on July 6, 1962.

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Three times a month, a busload of tourists heads to a Nevada desert test site, where they marvel at the lake-sized Sedan Crater created in 1962 by the below-ground explosion of a 104-kiloton ...

Travel ‘It’s Pretty Horrific but Fascinating Nonetheless.’ Inside the New Wave of Atomic Tourism. As two major movies about the atomic era hit screens, Americans curious about a ...