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 the Nuclear Test Site in Jackass Flats, Nev., ...

This recent glimpse into the history of America’s nuclear testing ... tests. The Sedan Crater is the only evidence left behind by a 100-kiloton thermonuclear explosion test conducted in the ...

That test, Project Sedan, spewed radioactive fallout across four states, contaminating “more Americans than any other nuclear test.” Such a foolhardy project continued for so long, says ...

As the Second World War ended and the Cold War began, the U.S. military detonated hundreds of devices in its desert test ... Sedan Crater, was created on July 6, 1962 as the Army tested whether ...

The U.S. government finally admitted Tonopah Test Range was used to test ballistic and non-nuclear features of atomic testing, which caused radiological and chemical contamination of soils ...