Sentences with phrase «u.s. nuclear detonation»

The team reproduced trinitite, the green - hued glass left by the Trinity test, the first U.S. nuclear detonation, which took place in 1945 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

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And while the U.S. has yet to verify that the weapon was a hydrogen bomb, experts widely agree that the detonation created an explosion exceeding previous North Korean nuclear tests.

Between 1945 and 1962 the U.S. conducted more than 200 atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and captured the detonations on film.

The detonations took place at the nuclear test site in southern Nevada, where between 1951 and 1992 the U.S. government set off 828 underground nuclear tests and 100 atmospheric ones, whose mushroom clouds were seen from Las Vegas, 100 kilometers away.

Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Nevada Test Site (now the Nevada National Security Site)-- located just 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — saw the detonation of 928 nuclear devices between 1951 and 1992.