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 ...

where they marvel at the lake-sized Sedan Crater created in 1962 by the below-ground explosion of a 104-kiloton hydrogen bomb. They see trenches where 1950s U.S. soldiers sat as an atomic bomb ...

The "Sedan" nuclear test became the "Sudan" nuclear ... 100 kiloton blast that displaced 12 million tons of earth and dug a crater 320 feet deep. He noted that the transcript referred to it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blasts could be seen from Las Vegas and St. George, Utah. The 1,280-feet wide Sedan Crater was created by the Sedan detonation in 1962 as part of the Plowshare Program. The program, which existed ...

While many of the nukes tested since then have been underground tests, the damage can still be seen throughout the desert in the form of massive craters like the Sedan Crater—left behind by a ...

I recently visited the Nevada Test Site, where over 900 nuclear tests were conducted. I saw Sedan Crater, a massive canyon created by an underground detonation, demonstrating the awesome ...

Fresh ones, too. The Sedan Crater was less than three years old when Armstrong and company walked around the top of it. Remains of the Sedan crater excavation experiment, detonated on July 6 ...

But most of the ideas, including Project Carryall, stayed on paper. The 1962 test creation of the Sedan Crater in Nevada sparked controversy and fears about unpredicted nuclear fallout.

There's also the Sedan Crater. It's the site of a massive underground explosion to determine whether nuclear blasts could be used to move earth. "You can't appreciate the size of a crater that is ...