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., ...

The 1,280-feet wide Sedan Crater was created by the Sedan ... Prior to 2004, the site was used for the Apple II nuclear weapons test — a 29-ton detonation that aired on television in 1955.

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 ...

including the Sedan Crater, created by the Department of Energy as part of an experiment conducted for the Plowshare Program in 1962. These craters were the result of nuclear testing that took ...

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 ...