Yucca Flat Bomb Craters

Color enhanced image of the North end of Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site. Most underground nuclear tests were conducted in this valley. Yucca Flat is a closed desert drainage basin, one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada Test Site (NTS), and is divided into nine test sections: Areas 1 through 4 and 6 through 10. Yucca Flat is located at the eastern edge of NTS, about ten miles north of Frenchman Flat, and 65 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada. Yucca Flat was the site for 739 nuclear tests and has been called the most irradiated, nuclear-blasted spot on the face of the earth

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