About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Amargosa Range, Amargosa Valley, Antelope Range (Nye County, Nevada), Arc Dome, Bare Mountain Range (Nevada), Belted Range, Big Smoky Valley, Bullfrog Hills, Cactus Range, Crater Flat, Devils Hole, Devils Hole Hills, Diana's Punchbowl, Eleana Range, Frenchman Flat, Gap Mountains, Grant Range, Halfpint Range, Horse Range (Nevada), Hot Creek Range, Johnnie Range, Kawich Range, Last Chance Range (Nevada), Lodi Hills, Monitor Hills, Monitor Range, Monte Cristo Mountains, Mount Jefferson (Nevada), Needle Range, Oasis Valley, Pahrump Valley, Pahute Mesa (landform), Pancake Range, Paradise Range, Park Range (Nevada), Quinn Canyon Range, Railroad Valley, Reese River, Reveille Range, Royston Hills, San Antonio Mountains, Seaman Range, Shoshone Mountain, Shoshone Mountains, Specter Range, Strawberry Valley, Titus Canyon, Toiyabe Range, Toquima Range, Troy Peak, Wellington Hills, White River (Nevada), Yucca Flat, Yucca Mountain. Excerpt: Yucca Flat is a closed desert drainage basin, one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada Test Site (NTS), and is divided into nine test sections: Areas 1 through 4 and 6 through 10. Yucca Flat is located at the eastern edge of NTS, about ten miles (16 km) north of Frenchman Flat, and 65 miles (105 km) from Las Vegas, Nevada. Yucca Flat was the site for 739 nuclear tests - nearly four of every five tests carried out at the NTS. Yucca Flat has been called "the most irradiated, nuclear-blasted spot on the face of the earth." In March 2009, TIME identified the 1970 Yucca Flat Baneberry Test, where 86 workers were exposed to radiation, as one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. Subsidence craters show past underground nuclear explosions at Yucca FlatThe open, sandy geology of Yucca Flat in the Tonopah Basin made for straightforward visual documentation of atmospheric nuclear...
