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The Nevada Test Site (NTS) is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada, about 65 mi (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas. Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Ground, the site, established on January 11, 1951, for the testing of nuclear devices, is composed of approximately 1,350 sq mi (3,500 km2) of desert and mountainous terrain. Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a one-kiloton (4 terajoule) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat on January 27, 1951. Many of the iconic images of the nuclear era come from NTS.
A 1979 study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that "A significant excess of leukemia deaths occurred in children up to 14 years of age living in Utah between 1959 and 1967. This excess was concentrated in the cohort of children born between 1951 and 1958, and was most pronounced in those residing in counties receiving high fallout."
In 1982, a lawsuit brought by nearly 1,200 people accused the government of negligence in atomic and/or nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950's, which they said had caused leukemia and other cancers. Dr. Karl Z. Morgan testified that radiation protection measures in the tests were substandard.
In a report by the National Cancer Institute, released in 1997, it was determined that ninety atmospheric tests at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) deposited high levels of radioactive iodine-131 (5.5 exabecquerels) across a large portion of the contiguous United States, especially in the years 1952, 1953, 1955, and 1957—doses large enough, they determined, to produce 10,000 to 75,000 cases of thyroid cancer. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990 allowed for people living downwind of NTS for at least two years in particular Nevada, Arizona or Utah counties, between January 21, 1951 October 31, 1958 or June 30, 1962 July 31, 1962, and suffering from certain cancers or other serious illnesses deemed to have been caused by fallout exposure to receive compensation of $50,000. By January 2006, over 10,500 claims had been approved, and around 3,000 denied, for a total amount of over $525 million in compensation dispensed to "downwinders." Additionally, the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 provides compensation and medical benefits for nuclear weapons workers who may have developed certain work-related illnesses.
From 1986 through 1994, two years after the United States put a hold on full-scale nuclear weapons testing, 536 demonstrations were held at the Nevada Test Site involving 37,488 participants and 15,740 arrests, according to government records.
American Peace Test (APT) and Nevada Desert Experience (NDE) held most of these. In March 1988, APT held an event where more than 8,000 people attended a ten-day action to "Reclaim the Test Site", where nearly 3,000 people were arrested with more than 1,200 in one day. This set a record for most civil disobedience arrests in a single protest. American Peace Test was collectively run by a group of individuals residing in Las Vegas, but leadership for the group was national. It originated with a small group of people who were active in the National Nuclear Weapons Freeze. APT was a breakaway organization beginning in 1986, with first public events held in 1987.
In the years that followed 1994, Shundahai Network in cooperation with Nevada Desert Experience and Corbin Harney continued the protests of the government's continued nuclear weapons work and also staged efforts to stop a repository for highly radioactive waste adjacent to the test site at Yucca Mountain, 100 mi (160 km) northwest of Las Vegas.
As of 2009, the test site offers public tours on an approximately quarterly basis, and the tours may be filled up as much as six months in advance. Visitors can't bring in cameras, binoculars, cell phones, or pick up rocks for souvenirs.
While there are no longer any explosive tests of nuclear weapons at the site, there is still subcritical testing, used to determine the viability of the United States' aging nuclear arsenal. Additionally, the site is the location of the Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Complex, which sorts and stores low-level radioactive waste that is not transuranic and has a half life of no greater than 20 years. Bechtel ran this complex until 2006. Several other companies won the latest bid for the contract. They then combined (formed) a new company called National Security Technologies.
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Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #55by talkingsticktv1,733,006 views
@CanoPinto that what im saying
thapantherfan09 10 months ago
thats the bomb in 45s. today bombs if decimated in north pole, you need to be in 5km deep fox hole in south pole to be safe.
runrunforest1 1 year ago
@coolierex So, start it killing the american liberal faggots xD. No, they know it isnt possible, you would be destroyed too. You menaged to wiped the indians out, but you cant do it against the muslins. The atomic arsenal is good for nothing but spend money - very good to warfare industry, very bad to taxpayers.
CanoPinto 1 year ago
@CanoPinto because America is full of liberal faggots that don't realize that without filthy ragheads this world world be a GREAT GREAT place, just glassing that desert would be great.
coolierex 1 year ago
xD, so funny. USA have the largest atomic arsenal but cant win in Afghanistan...
CanoPinto 1 year ago
Haha! Go the sneaky U.S. government!
666TAcT666 1 year ago
it would take me anything to ban nuclear weaponry even if I have to burn down the houses of parlament with my cocktail molotoves and protesters
MjrDario 1 year ago
What the fuck with our human rights???!! Our gov always talk about human rights issues about other countries and take advantages of it, but it just ignores the issues in our own country and take advantages of it as well! WHAT..THE..FUCK!!!
vascularcylinder 1 year ago
wow now thats high tech decamination lol and radium is still bad
rebelgunnut 1 year ago
Wow... Thats crazy.....
redschool 2 years ago