Pahute Mesa

USA / Nevada / Beatty /

military, nuclear testing area

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Many dozens of nuclear tests occurred here. There were two types of tests; the ones that formed subsidence craters (In the dry lake bed area) and these in this mountainous area which were (mostly) contained. The majority of these white spots with roads leading up to them are test sites.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahute_Mesa

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Coordinates: 37°16'48"N 116°25'22"W

Nevada National Security Site 18 km
Yucca Flat 29 km
Area 7 38 km
Nuclear Rocket Development Site 48 km
Area 27 59 km
Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Complex (Doomtown) 61 km
Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) 397 km
Dawson Forest - a.k.a. Georgia's Area 51 2912 km
Johnston Atoll 5656 km
Former French nuclear testing sites of Reggane 10301 km

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