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Historical Publications
U.S. Department of Energy has an abundance of historical information
about the United States’ nuclear testing program. These nuclear tests
and simultaneous detonations were conducted from 1945 through 1992. Many
of these historical documents can be located at the National Nuclear
Security Administration Nuclear
Testing Archive.
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 | Origins of the Nevada Test Site
History of the Nevada Test Site. It was written in conjunction with 50th anniversary commemoration of Nevada Test Site, December 18, 2000-fifty years after President Truman formally designated the site as the location for conducting nuclear weapons tests | 12/1/2000 | DOE/MA 0518 | 3243 KB | | Declassification of the Yields of 11 Nuclear Tests Conducted as Part of the Plowshare Peaceful Uses for Nuclear Explosives Program
| 12/1/1997 | | 13 KB | | Development of the Town Data Base: Estimates of Exposure Rates and Times of Fallout Arrival Near the Nevada Test Site
| 9/1/1994 | DOE/NV 374 | 5031 KB | | The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions
| 10/1/1989 | OTA-ISC-414 | 49125 KB | | United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 through September 1992
Chronological and alphabetical by name all nuclear tests and simultaneous detonations conducted by the United States. Detonation time and locations (latitude, longitude, and surface elevation) are included | | DOE/NV 209-REV15 | 878 KB | | Radiological Effluents Released from U.S. Continental Tests, 1961 through 1992
This report documents all continental tests from September 15, 1961, through September 23, 1992, from which radioactive effluents were released. Information for each test includes date, time, location, type of test, purpose, extent of the release | | DOE/NV 317 | 1822 KB | | Nevada Test Site Guide
The Nevada Test Site Guide expands on the information previously published in the Guide to Frenchman Flat. The Guide to Frenchman Flat was published to dispel some of the myths and factual errors that clouded the events that took place in Frenchman Flat. | | DOE/NV 715 Rev1 | 27638 KB | | | An account of the return to Nuclear Weapons testing by the United States after the test moratorium 1958-1961 | 10/1/1985 | DOE/NV 291 | |
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