Nevada Test Site (NTS) Pictures

As the first faint streaks of dawn poked over the distant hills the blast came.
A vivid flash of light pierced the desert darkness and lighted up the entire
countryside. It lasted but a moment or two then was gone. All eyes turned
toward the spot where the bomb had exploded. They saw a big ball of furiously
churning fire, smoke, sand and debris rapidly rising from the ground in huge,
rolling waves. The afterglow remained for several minutes while the mushroom
cloud continued to rise then drift away and apart. Then sun was still below the
horizon but daylight was coming fast. Broad streaks of sunlight slanted over
the mountain tops like ghostly fingers clawing at the heavens. Rumbling of the
shock wave continued for nearly five minutes, bouncing back and forth from
one mountain wall to another.

			Nevada Highways & Parks 13, no2,
		 	"Observation Shot Project", (Jun-Dec 1953): 3-16

              

Test: Easy
31 Kt fission airburst, altitude 400 m
Proof test of B-7 fission bomb, dropped from B-45
Weapon weight 1800 lb.

              

Test: Grable
15:30 25 May 1953 (GMT)
15 Kt fission airburst, 160 m altitude at Frenchman Flat, NTS
Test of 280 mm atomic cannon, using Mk-9 artillery projectile
Oralloy (highly enriched uranium) fissile material

              

Test:  Climax
11:15 4 June 1957 (GMT)
61 Kt fission airburst, 970 m altitude, dropped from B-36
Test drop of high-yield version of B-7 fission bomb

              

Test: MET (Military Effects Test)
 19:15  15 April 1955 (GMT)
22 Kt fission test on 400 ft. tower
This was a test of a U-233 bomb core.
The primary purpose was to evaluate the destructive effects
 of nuclear explosions for military purposes.

              

Test: Priscilla
13:30 24 June 1957 (GMT)
37 Kt balloon airburst, altitude 700 ft.
Weapon effects test
Used a device drawn from weapon stockpile, probably a TX-15/39 primary
Device weight 581.4 lb

              

Test:  Hood
11:40.00.4 5 July 1957 (GMT)
74 Kt balloon supported airburst, altitude 1500 ft.
Largest atmospheric test at NTS (and in continental U.S.)
 393 lb. two-stage thermonuclear device 

              

Test:  Stokes
12:25 7 August 1957 (GMT)
19 Kt boosted fission device, balloon airburst at 1500 ft.
Oralloy (highly enriched uranium), DT gas boosting
Test of XW-30 TADM (Tactical Atomic Demolition Munition), 
device weight 448 lb.

              

Test: Fizeau
16:45 14 September 1957 (GMT)
11 Kt boosted fission device test on 500 ft. tower
 Possibly test XW-34 depth bomb, device weight 131.3 lb.

              

Test: Lea
13:20 13 October 1958 (GMT)
1.4 Kt, balloon airburst, altitude 1500 ft., Yucca Flats
Test of XW-44 ASROC (Anti-Submarine Rocket) warhead

              

Test: De Baca
 16:00 26 October 1958 (GMT)
2.2 Kt, balloon airburst, altitude 1500 ft., Yucca Flats
Test of XW-44 ASROC (Anti-Submarine Rocket) warhead, yield lower than expected

              

Test: Sedan
17:00 6 July 1962 (GMT)
104 Kt subsurface burst, depth 194 m
 Plowshare test of nuclear cratering in alluvium for engineering use
One of the largest tests ever conducted in the continental U.S.
12 million tons rock and earth lifted by blast , 8 million tons falling outside crater
1280 ft diameter crater produced, 320 ft deep

              

Unknown Nevada Test
              

1953 Shot, Photographer: Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, 1903-1990

              

Larry Prey Picture of Teapot Soldiers under Cloud

              

Underground Nuclear Test