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AECOM
AECOM (formerly known as AECOM Technology Corporation) is an American multinational engineering firm that provides design, consulting, construction, and management services to a wide range of clients.
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AIR-2 Genie
The Douglas AIR-2 Genie (previous designation MB-1 and also known as the blivet) was an unguided air-to-air rocket with a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead.
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Anti-nuclear movement
The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.
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Aquifer
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).
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Area 51
The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51 is a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, within the Nevada Test and Training Range.
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Area 7 (novel)
Area 7 is a novel written by Australian thriller writer Matthew Reilly.
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Barbara Boxer
Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is a retired American politician who served as a United States Senator for California from 1993 to 2017.
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Bechtel
Bechtel Corporation (Bechtel Group, Inc.) is an engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company.
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Becquerel
The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the SI derived unit of radioactivity.
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BREN Tower
BREN Tower was a guyed steel framework mast, high, on the Nevada Test Site in Nevada, USA.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a nontechnical academic journal, published by Taylor and Francis that covers global security and public policy issues related to the dangers posed by nuclear threats, weapons of mass destruction, climate change, and emerging technologies and biological hazards.
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Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
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Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.
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Certified first responder
For the more current term, see Emergency medical responder A certified first responder (Also called an Emergency Medical Responder, Emergency First Responder, Medical First Responder, or First Responder) is a person who has completed a course and received certification in providing pre-hospital care for medical emergencies.
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CH2M Hill
CH2M HILL, also known as CH2M, is a global engineering company that provides consulting, design, construction, and operations services for corporations, and federal, state, and local governments.
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Civil defense
Civil defense or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from military attacks and natural disasters.
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Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty that bans all nuclear explosions, for both civilian and military purposes, in all environments.
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Corbin Harney
Corbin Harney (March 24, 1920 – July 10, 2007) was an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people.
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Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.
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Critical mass
A critical mass is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction.
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Defense Threat Reduction Agency
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is an agency within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and is the official Combat Support Agency for countering weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high explosives).
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Desert Rock Airport
Desert Rock Airport is a private-use airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Mercury, in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
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Desert Rock exercises
Desert Rock was the code name of a series of exercises conducted by the US military in conjunction with atmospheric nuclear tests.
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Divine Strake
Divine Strake was the official designation for a large-yield, non-nuclear, high-explosive test that was planned for the Nevada National Security Site, formerly the Nevada Test Site.
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Doc Searls
David "Doc" Searls (born July 29, 1947), is an American journalist, columnist, and a widely read blogger.
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Downwinders
Downwinders refers to the individuals and communities in the intermountain area between the Cascade and Rocky Mountain ranges primarily in Arizona, Nevada and Utah but also in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho who were exposed to radioactive contamination or nuclear fallout from atmospheric or underground nuclear weapons testing, and nuclear accidents.
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Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program
The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP) was passed in 2000 and is designed to compensate individuals who worked in nuclear weapons production and as a result of occupational exposures contracted certain illnesses.
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Enewetak Atoll
Enewetak Atoll (also spelled Eniwetok Atoll or sometimes Eniewetok; Ānewetak,, or Āne-wātak) is a large coral atoll of 40 islands in the Pacific Ocean and with its 850 people forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No.
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Frenchman Flat
Frenchman Flat is a hydrographic basin in the Nevada National Security Site south of Yucca Flat and north of Mercury, Nevada.
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Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Heritage Documentation Programs
Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) responsible for administering the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).
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Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.
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International Day against Nuclear Tests
The International Day against Nuclear Tests is observed on August 29.
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Iodine
Iodine is a chemical element with symbol I and atomic number 53.
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Iodine-131
Iodine-131 (131I) is an important radioisotope of iodine discovered by Glenn Seaborg and John Livingood in 1938 at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Isotope
Isotopes are variants of a particular chemical element which differ in neutron number.
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Isotopes of iodine
There are 37 known isotopes of iodine (53I) from 108I to 144I; all undergo radioactive decay except 127I, which is stable.
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JAMA (journal)
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association.
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Jim Bates (politician)
Jim Bates (born July 21, 1941) is a former Democratic politician from San Diego, California.
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Johnson Controls
Johnson Controls International plc is a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Cork, Ireland, that produces automotive parts such as batteries, and electronics and HVAC equipment for buildings.
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Joule
The joule (symbol: J) is a derived unit of energy in the International System of Units.
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Karl Z. Morgan
Karl Ziegler Morgan (September 27, 1907 – June 8, 1999), was an American physicist who was one of the founders of the field of radiation health physics.
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Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor.
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Las Vegas
Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.
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Leon Panetta
Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) is an American politician who has served in several different public office positions, such as Secretary of Defense, Director of the CIA, White House Chief of Staff, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and as a U.S. Representative from California.
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Leukemia
Leukemia, also spelled leukaemia, is a group of cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal white blood cells.
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LGM-118 Peacekeeper
The LGM-118 Peacekeeper, also known as the MX missile (for Missile-eXperimental), was a land-based ICBM deployed by the United States starting in 1986.
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Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents.
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Little Feller (nuclear tests)
Little Feller II and Little Feller I were code names for a set of nuclear tests undertaken by the United States at the Nevada Test Site on July 7 and July 17, 1962 as part of Operation Sunbeam.
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Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies company with worldwide interests.
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M65 atomic cannon
The M65 atomic cannon, often called "Atomic Annie", was a towed artillery piece built by the United States and capable of firing a nuclear device.
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Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ), is an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line.
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Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor of Spanish/Irish descent who first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role in Apocalypse Now (1979) and as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999-2006).
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Mercury, Nevada
Mercury is a closed city in Nye County, Nevada, United States, north of U.S. Route 95 at a point northwest of Las Vegas.
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Mike Lowry
Michael Edward Lowry (March 8, 1939 – May 1, 2017) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 20th Governor of the U.S. state of Washington from 1993 to 1997 and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Washington's 7th district between 1979 and 1989.
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Mushroom cloud
A mushroom cloud is a distinctive pyrocumulus mushroom-shaped cloud of debris/smoke and usually condensed water vapor resulting from a large explosion.
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National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.
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NERVA
The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA) was a U.S. nuclear thermal rocket engine development program that ran for roughly two decades.
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Nevada Desert Experience
The Nevada Desert Experience is a name for the movement to stop U.S. nuclear weapons testing that came into use in the middle 1980s.
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Nevada Test and Training Range
The Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) is one of two military training areas used by the United States Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
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North American Aerospace Defense Command
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), known until March 1981 as the North American Air Defense Command, is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Northern America.
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Northrop F-89 Scorpion
The Northrop F-89 Scorpion was an American all-weather interceptor built during the 1950s, the first jet-powered aircraft designed as such from the outset to enter service.
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Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by Northrop's 1994 purchase of Grumman.
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Nuclear bunker buster
A nuclear bunker buster, also known as an earth-penetrating weapon (EPW), is the nuclear equivalent of the conventional bunker buster.
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Nuclear fallout
Nuclear fallout, or simply fallout, is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and the shock wave have passed.
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Nuclear Fuel Services
Nuclear Fuel Services Inc.
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Nuclear thermal rocket
A nuclear thermal rocket is a proposed spacecraft propulsion technology.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).
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Nuclear weapons testing
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons.
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Nye County, Nevada
Nye County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada.
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Operation Anvil (nuclear test)
Operation Anvil was a series of 21 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1975-1976 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Aqueduct
The United States's Aqueduct nuclear test series was a group of 10 nuclear tests conducted in 1989-1990.
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Operation Arbor
The United States's Arbor nuclear test series was a group of 18 nuclear tests conducted in 1973-1974.
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Operation Bedrock
The United States's Bedrock nuclear test series was a group of 27 nuclear tests conducted in 1974-1975.
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Operation Bowline
The United States's Bowline nuclear test series was a group of 47 nuclear tests conducted in 1968–1969.
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Operation Buster–Jangle
Operation Buster–Jangle was a series of seven (six atmospheric, one cratering) nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States in late 1951 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Charioteer
Operation Charioteer was a series of 16 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1985-1986 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Cornerstone
The United States's Cornerstone nuclear test series was a group of 11 nuclear tests conducted in 1988-1989.
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Operation Cresset
The United States's Cresset nuclear test series was a group of 22 nuclear tests conducted in 1977-1978.
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Operation Crosstie
Operation Crosstie was a series of 48 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1967–1968 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Dominic
Operation Dominic was a series of 31 nuclear test explosions with a 38.1 Mt total yield conducted in 1962 by the United States in the Pacific.
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Operation Emery
The United States's Emery nuclear test series was a group of 16 nuclear weapons tests conducted in 1970-1971.
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Operation Fishbowl
Operation Fishbowl was a series of high-altitude nuclear tests in 1962 that were carried out by the United States as a part of the larger Operation Dominic nuclear test program.
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Operation Flintlock (nuclear test)
The United States's Flintlock nuclear test series was a group of 47 nuclear tests conducted in 1965-1966.
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Operation Fulcrum
The United States's Fulcrum nuclear test series was a group of 21 nuclear tests conducted in 1976-1977.
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Operation Fusileer
Operation Fusileer was a series of 16 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1983-1984 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Greenhouse
Operation Greenhouse was the fifth American nuclear test series, the second conducted in 1951 and the first to test principles that would lead to developing thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs).
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Operation Grenadier
Operation Grenadier was a series of 16 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1984-1985 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Grommet
The United States's Grommet nuclear test series was a group of 34 nuclear tests conducted in 1971-1972.
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Operation Guardian
Operation Guardian was a series of 14 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1980-1981 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Hardtack II
Operation Hardtack II was a series of 37 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1958 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Julin
The United States's Julin nuclear test series was a group of 7 nuclear tests conducted in 1991–1992.
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Operation Latchkey
Operation Latchkey was a series of 38 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1966-1967 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Mandrel
The United States's Mandrel nuclear test series was a group of 52 nuclear tests conducted in 1969-1970.
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Operation Musketeer (Nuclear test)
The United States's Musketeer nuclear test series was a group of 14 nuclear tests conducted in 1986-1987.
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Operation Niblick
The United States's Niblick nuclear test series was a group of 41 nuclear tests conducted in 1963–1964.
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Operation Nougat
Operation Nougat was a series of 44 nuclear tests conducted (with one exception) at the Nevada Test Site in 1961 and 1962, immediately after the Soviet Union abrogated a testing moratorium, with the US' Mink test shot taking place the day before the Soviets test-detonated the Tsar Bomba.
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Operation Phalanx
The United States's Phalanx nuclear test series was a group of 18 nuclear tests conducted in 1982-1983.
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Operation Plumbbob
Operation Plumbbob was a series of nuclear tests conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site, following Project 57, and preceding Project 58/58A.
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Operation Praetorian
The United States's Praetorian nuclear test series was a group of 19 nuclear tests conducted in 1981-1982.
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Operation Quicksilver (1978)
Operation Quicksilver was a series of 16 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1978-1979 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Ranger
Operation Ranger was the fourth American nuclear test series.
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Operation Roller Coaster
Operation Roller Coaster was a series of 4 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1963 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Sculpin
The United States's Sculpin nuclear test series was a group of 7 nuclear tests conducted in 1990-1991.
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Operation Storax
Operation Storax was a series of 47 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1962-1963 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Sunbeam
Operation Sunbeam was a series of four nuclear tests conducted at the United States of America's Nevada Test Site in 1962.
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Operation Teapot
Operation Teapot was a series of fourteen nuclear test explosions conducted at the Nevada Test Site in the first half of 1955.
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Operation Tinderbox
Operation Tinderbox was a series of 14 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1979-1980 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Toggle
The United States's Toggle nuclear test series was a group of 28 nuclear tests conducted in 1972-1973.
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Operation Touchstone
The United States's Touchstone nuclear test series was a group of 13 nuclear tests conducted in 1987-1988.
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Operation Tumbler–Snapper
Operation Tumbler–Snapper was a series of atomic tests conducted by the United States in early 1952 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Upshot–Knothole
Operation Upshot–Knothole was a series of eleven nuclear test shots conducted in 1953 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Operation Whetstone
The United States's Whetstone nuclear test series was a group of 46 nuclear tests conducted in 1964-1965.
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Pacific Proving Grounds
The Pacific Proving Grounds was the name given by the United States government to a number of sites in the Marshall Islands and a few other sites in the Pacific Ocean at which it conducted nuclear testing between 1946 and 1962.
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Pahute Mesa
Pahute Mesa or Paiute Mesa is one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
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Pahute Mesa Airstrip
Pahute Mesa Airstrip is a private-use airport located northwest of the central business district of Mercury, in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
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Plutonium
Plutonium is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Pu and atomic number 94.
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Project 56 (nuclear test)
Operation Project 56 was a series of 4 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1955-1956 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Project 57
Project 57 was an open-air nuclear test conducted by the United States at the Nellis Air Force Range in 1957, following Operation Redwing, and preceding Operation Plumbbob.
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Project 58/58A
Operation Project 58/58A was a series of 4 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1957-1958 at the Nevada Test Site.
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Project Plowshare
Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes.
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Project Pluto
Project Pluto was a United States government program to develop nuclear-powered ramjet engines for use in cruise missiles.
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Pulsed power
Pulsed power is the science and technology of accumulating energy over a relatively long period of time and releasing it very quickly, thus increasing the instantaneous power.
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Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
The United States Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) is a federal statute providing for the monetary compensation of people, including atomic veterans, who contracted cancer and a number of other specified diseases as a direct result of their exposure to atmospheric nuclear testing undertaken by the United States during the Cold War, or their exposure to radon gas and other radioactive isotopes while undertaking uranium mining, milling or the transportation of ore.
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Radioactive decay
Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay or radioactivity) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy (in terms of mass in its rest frame) by emitting radiation, such as an alpha particle, beta particle with neutrino or only a neutrino in the case of electron capture, gamma ray, or electron in the case of internal conversion.
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Rainier Mesa
Rainier Mesa is one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
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Robert Blake (actor)
Robert Blake (born Michael James Gubitosi; September 18, 1933) is an American former actor, having starring roles in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta.
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Sedan (nuclear test)
Storax Sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in Area 10 of Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site on July 6, 1962 as part of Operation Plowshare, a program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining, cratering, and other civilian purposes.
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Sedan Crater
Sedan Crater is the result of the Sedan nuclear test and is located within the Nevada Test Site, southwest of Groom Lake, Nevada (Area 51).
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Semipalatinsk Test Site
The Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS or Semipalatinsk-21), also known as "The Polygon", was the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons.
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St. George, Utah
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Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles).
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Subsidence crater
A subsidence crater is a hole or depression left on the surface of an area which has had an underground (usually nuclear) explosion.
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The Conqueror (1956 film)
The Conqueror is a 1956 American CinemaScope epic film directed by Dick Powell and written by Oscar Millard.
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The Ledger
The Ledger is a daily newspaper serving Lakeland, Florida and the Polk County area.
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The New England Journal of Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society.
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Thomas Downey
Thomas Joseph Downey (born January 28, 1949) is an American politician and was a U.S. Representative from New York.
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Thyroid
The thyroid gland, or simply the thyroid, is an endocrine gland in the neck, consisting of two lobes connected by an isthmus.
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Thyroid cancer
Thyroid cancer is cancer that develops from the tissues of the thyroid gland.
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TNT equivalent
TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.
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Tonopah Test Range
The Tonopah Test Range (TTR) is a restricted military installation located about southeast of Tonopah, Nevada.
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Totskoye nuclear exercise
The Totskoye nuclear exercise was a military exercise undertaken by the Soviet Army to explore defensive and offensive warfare during nuclear war.
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Transuranium element
The transuranium elements (also known as transuranic elements) are the chemical elements with atomic numbers greater than 92 (the atomic number of uranium).
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Tritium
Tritium (or; symbol or, also known as hydrogen-3) is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.
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U.S. Route 95
U.S. Route 95 (US 95) is a north–south U.S. highway in the western United States.
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United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Atomic Energy Commission
The United States Atomic Energy Commission, commonly known as the AEC, was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.
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United States Department of Defense
The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Department of Energy
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.
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Upshot-Knothole Grable
Upshot–Knothole Grable was a nuclear weapons test conducted by the United States as part of Operation Upshot–Knothole.
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Upshot-Knothole Harry
Upshot–Knothole Harry (UK#9) was a nuclear weapons test conducted by the United States as part of Operation Upshot–Knothole.
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Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
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Water table
The water table is the upper surface of the zone of saturation.
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Yucca Mountain
Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately northwest of Las Vegas.
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Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, is to be a deep geological repository storage facility within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste in the United States.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site
