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 ...

West Valley City • Rep. Ben McAdams stood beside a picture of the 104-kiloton “Sedan” nuclear weapons test that occurred exactly 58 years ago in Nevada, spreading radioactive debris downwind ...

and plans were drawn up to use nuclear explosions to create new roadways, widen the Panama Canal, and tap natural gas reserves. The 1962 Sedan test, shown below, left an enormous crater that was ...

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., ...

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 ...

Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) has successfully conducted a full-scale crash test of the semi ... seat of an ordinary Army sedan, which was used to carry the nuclear materials for the first ...