NTS - Krakatau subcritical experiment 001
The Krakatau subcritical experiment is being prepared to be lowered into the floor of the tunnel of the U1a Complex at the Nevada Test Site.
NTS - Krakatau subcritical experiment 002
Krakatau subcritical experiment being lowered into the floor of the tunnel of the U1a Complex at the Nevada Test Site. The cables extending from the hole will carry data from the experiment to recording instruments.
NTS - Krakatau subcritical experiment 003
Krakatau subcritical experiment being lowered into the floor of the tunnel of the U1a Complex at the Nevada Test Site. The cables extending from the hole will carry data from the experiment to recording instruments.
NTS - Krakatau subcritical experiment 004
After the Krakatau subcritical experiment is lowered into the floor of the tunnel at the U1a Complex, marbles, gravel and cement seal the hole preventing radiation from the experiment escaping into the tunnel.
NTS - Krakatau subcritical experiment 005
After the Krakatau subcritical experiment is lowered into the floor of the tunnel at the U1a Complex, marbles, gravel and cement seal the hole preventing radiation from the experiment escaping into the tunnel.
NTS - Krakatau subcritical experiment 006
After the Krakatau subcritical experiment is lowered into the floor of the tunnel at the U1a Complex, marbles, gravel and cement seal the hole preventing radiation from the experiment escaping into the tunnel.
Able test atomic bomb cloud on 1 July 1946 (NH 85804-KN)
Operation Crossroads: "Able" test atomic bomb cloud, 1 July 1946.
Herbert York (cropped)
Herbert York, first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in 1957.
NTS - Plumbob - Stokes test with Goodyear ZSG-3 blimp (cropped)
PLUMBBOB/STOKES/dirigible – Nevada test Site, August 7, 1957. The tail, or “After” section of a U.S. Navy Goodyear ZSG-3 Blimp is shown with the Stokes cloud in background. The dirigible was in temporary free... More
Class A Radioactive Waste disposal at Clive, Utah
Class A radioactive waste disposal at the Clive, Utah disposal facility in Tooele County, Utah.
A. Vay Shelton - A black and white photo of a man wearing glasses and ...
1957 - A. Vay Shelton, LLNL, UCRL - 8061 Public domain photograph - male portrait, a man in glasses, professor, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial View of Sedan Crater
Looking like a meteorite strike, this photo shows the crater made by the Sedan detonation.
Air Force helicopters fly DOE radiation monitoring personnel and photo...
Air Force helicopters fly DOE radiation monitoring personnel and photographers over Yucca Flat during tests. Yucca Flat, where most nuclear weapons tests are conducted, is dotted with more than 200 subsidence ... More
Alvin C. Graves - A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie
Alvin C. Graves in 1957.
Anti-nuclear protest at the NTS 1
In 1960 "Mothers Strike for Peace" paraded outside the entrance to the Nevada Test Site.
Anti-nuclear protest at the NTS 2
A small anti-nuclear protest group gathers on July 10, 1963, at the entrance to the Nevada Test Site.
Anti-nuclear protest at the NTS 3
Members of Desert Lenten Experience hold a prayer vigil during the Easter period of 1982 at the entrance to the Nevada Test Site. Their sign reads "They will beat their swords into plowshares."
Anti-nuclear protest outside the AEC's Las Vegas Office
Anti-nuclear protestors from Utah gather during the 1960's outside the AEC's Las Vegas Office.
Apollo16-Schooner - A black and white photo of a man driving a vehicle
Photograph taken at Nevada Test Site, Area 20, near Schooner crater. Apollo 16 astronauts train in the Lunar rover in terrain simulating the moon.
Astragalus beatleyae - Public domain drawing
Beatley’s milkvetch (Astragalus beatleyae). Public domain scan of drawing, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Athene cunicularia hypugea
Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugea. National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office, Las Vegas, Nevada
ATLAS Pulsed-Power Generator
Artist rendering of the ATLAS Pulsed-Power Generator.
Atombombentest Redwing-Seminole 01
Deutsch: Atombombentest Seminole (Sprengkraft 13.7 kt). English: Nuclear weapon test Seminole (yield 13.7 kt) on Enewetak Atoll. Suomi: Ydinkoe Seminole (räjähdysvoima 13,7 kt) Enewetak Atollilla.
Atombombentest Redwing-Seminole 02
Deutsch: Atombombentest Seminole (Sprengkraft 13.7 kt). English: Nuclear weapon test Seminole (yield 13.7 kt) on Enewetak Atoll. Suomi: Ydinkoe Seminole (räjähdysvoima 13,7 kt) Enewetak Atollilla.
Atomic blast Nevada Yucca 1951, atomic bomb, nuclear explosion
14 kiloton atomic explosion, from a 1951 US nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. (Operation Buster-Jangle, Charlie) Original caption: XX-27 charlie a 14 kiloton device was dropped from a B-50 bomber on Octo... More
Barry Goldwater, Jr. and Mahlon L. Gates at the Sedan Crater
Congressman Barry Goldwater, Jr. (left), stands with Mahlon E. Gates, Manager, Nevada Operations Office on June 10, 1980 at Sedan Crater.
Beechcraft Super King Air 1147
AMS aircraft stationed at the Remote Sensing Laboratory in Las Vegas, NV.
BOLTZMANN nuclear explosion on May 28, 1957, photographed 11 miles fro...
BOLTZMANN fireball, May 28, 1957, photographed 11 miles from ground zero.
BREN Tower nevada - A black and white photo of a radio tower
Public domain photograph of a column monument, city square, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bristle cone pine on Rainier Mesa 1
Bristle cone pine on Rainier Mesa.
Bristle cone pine on Rainier Mesa 2
Bristlecone Pine on Rainier Mesa near Stockade Wash.
Buster-Jangle 001 - A black and white photo of a large cloud of smoke
Operation Buster-Jangle - Nevada Proving Ground. A dissipating atomic cloud dwarfs Army troops observing a detonation as part of one of the Desert Rock exercises, fall 1951.
Buster-Jangle Easy 001, atomic bomb, nuclear explosion
The EASY Event, part of Operation Buster, was a 31-kiloton weapons related device detonated November 5, 1951 at the Nevada Test Site (NTS).
Cactus bloom at the Nevada Test Site 1
Cactus bloom at the Nevada Test Site. Public domain scan of drawing, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cactus bloom at the Nevada Test Site 2
Cactus bloom at the Nevada Test Site. Public domain photograph of cactus plant, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cactus mouse at the Nevada Test Site
Cactus mouse (peromyscus eremicus). Four species of cactus mouse have been trapped on the Nevada Test Site. The cactus mouse inhabits the Mojave Desert eroregion.
Camissonia megalantha - Public domain scenic drawing
Cane Spring suncup (Camissonia megalantha). Public domain scan of drawing, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Camp Mercury under construction
Nevada Test Site. Camp Mercury while it was under construction.
Castle Bravo (black and white), atomic bomb, nuclear explosion
Deutsch: Atombombentest Bravo (Sprengkraft 15 Mt). English: Nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll. The test was part of the Operation Castle. The Bravo event was an experimental thermonuclea... More
Castle Romeo, atomic bomb, nuclear explosion
Deutsch: Atombombentest Romeo (Sprengkraft 11 Mt), siehe Operation Castle English: Castle Romeo nuclear test (yield 11 Mt) on Bikini Atoll. It was the first nuclear test conducted on a barge. The barge was lo... More
Chukar at the Nevada Test Site
Chukar (Alectoris chukar) at the Nevada Test Site.
Crew members of the 3rd Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, 26th Strate...
TEAPOT - Crew members of the 3rd Squadron, 26th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, who are participating in Operation Teapot. Left to right: Captain William E. Yingling, aircraft commander; 1/Lt. Herbert M. Paynter... More
Crossroads Able 002 - A black and white photo of a nuclear explosion
Crossroads Able nuclear test. This was the first nuclear weapon test at Bikini. The photograph shows the radioactive cloud still boiling up toward its maximum height of about 35,000 feet.
Crosstie Buggy 001 - A black and white photo of a large cloud of smoke
Buggy was the first nuclear row-charge experiment in the Plowshare Program (experiments to develop peaceful uses of nuclear explosives). The NTS experiment on March 12, 1968, consisted of simultaneous detonati... More
Cylindropuntia bigelovii at the Nevada Test Site 1
Cactus at the Nevada Test Site. Public domain scan of drawing, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cylindropuntia bigelovii bloom at the Nevada Test Site 3
Cactus bloom at the Nevada Test Site. Public domain scan of drawing, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Darol K. Froman - A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk
April 5, 1953 - Dr. Darol K. Froman, Technical Associate Director, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. (Photo by Dennis Schieck, Review-Journal, 4/5/53)
Desert Flowers at the Nevada Test Site 1
Desert Flowers at the Nevada Test Site
Desert tortoise at the Nevada Test Site
Desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) at the Nevada Test Site.
Don B. Shuster - A black and white photo of a man wearing a bow tie
1957 - Don B. Shuster - Don B. Shuster of Sandia Corporation's (Albuquerque, N.M.) Full Scale Test Department, is Associate Test Director of the Nevada Test Organization during the current 1957 test series.
Douglas AD Skyraiders parked at Indian Springs Air Force Base in 1955
Operation Teapot. Three U.S. Navy Douglas AD Skyraider carrier attack bombers attached to the U.S. Naval Air Special Weapons Facility at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico (USA), are shown squeezed into the pa... More
Duane Sewell - A black and white photo of a man in a suit
1957 - Duane Sewell, LLNL, UCRL - 2251
Echinocereus engelmannii flowers at the Nevada Test Site 1
Cactus flowers at the Nevada Test Site. Public domain scan of drawing, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Exercise Desert Rock IV (Tumbler-Snapper George) 001
Exercise Desert Rock IV - Nevada Proving Grounds - June 1, 1952. Sixth Army troops from Camp Desert Rock attack towards an atomic blast during a maneuver held by the Army at the AEC's Nevada Proving Grounds in... More
Fallout broom - A group of men in uniform standing next to each other
Exercise Desert Rock IV - Nevada Proving Grounds - June 1, 1952. Sixth Army troops from Camp Desert Rock attack towards an atomic blast during a maneuver held by the Army at the AEC's Nevada Proving Grounds in... More
Frank O'Beirne - A black and white photo of a man in a military unifor...
1957 - Rear Admiral Frank O'Beirne, U.S. Navy, Commander, Field Command, AFSWP, Sandia Base, NM
Franklin Prime test, Operation Plumbbob, Yucca Flat, Nevada - 19570830
PLUMBBOB/FRANKLIN PRIME - August 30, 1957 - NEVADA TEST SITE -- The FRANKLIN PRIME Event is detonated from a balloon in Yucca Flat at an altitude of 750 feet.
Frenchman Flat Underground Garage 001
PLUMBBOB - 1957 - NEVADA TEST SITE -- Automobile ramp leading down to entrance of the underground dual-purpose garage and mass shelter, sponsored by the Federal Civil Defense Administration. The structure will ... More
Frenchman Flat Underground Garage 002
Frenchman Flat. Entrance to the underground garage/shelter as it appeared in 1957. This underground dual-purpose garage and mass shelter was built for the Federal Civil Defense Administration at a cost of $200... More
Frenchman Flat Underground Garage 003
PLUMBBOB - 1957 - NEVADA TEST SITE -- The reinforced concrete blast door for the dual-purpose garage and mass shelter, sponsored by the Federal Civil Defense Administration, is shown at left. The view, looking ... More
Frenchman Flat Underground Garage 004
PLUMBBOB - 1957 - NEVADA TEST SITE -- Interior view of the dual-purpose garage and mass shelter, sponsored by the Federal Civil Defense Administration, showing two of the three rows of support columns. Radiatio... More
Frenchman Flat Underground Garage 005
PLUMBBOB - 1957 - NEVADA TEST SITE -- Auto ramp leading down to dual-purpose underground garage, designed by Ammann and Whitney Consulting Engineers under the sponsorship of the Federal Civil Defense Administra... More
Frenchman Flat Underground Garage 006
PLUMBBOB - 1957 - NEVADA TEST SITE -- Close-up of entrance to dual-purpose underground garage and mass shelter, sponsored by the Federal Civil Defense Administration under the Nevada Test Organization's Civil E... More
Frenchman Flat Underground Garage 007
PLUMBBOB - 1957 - NEVADA TEST SITE -- The 100-ton blast door for the underground garage-mass shelter has been rolled back on its monorail, undamaged by a recent atomic detonation. Debris from a retaining wall, ... More
Frenchman Flat Underground Garage 008
PLUMBBOB - 1957 - NEVADA TEST SITE -- The underground chamber of a dual purpose structure, designed by Amman & Whitney Consulting Engineers as a part of FCDA's participation in the Civil Effects Test Group prog... More
Frenchman Flat Underground Garage 009
Frenchman Flat. Entrance to the underground garage/shelter as it appears today. This underground dual-purpose garage and mass shelter was built for the Federal Civil Defense Administration at a cost of $200,00... More
Gerald W. Johnson - A black and white photo of a man wearing glasses
1957 - Dr. Gerald W. Johnson Test Director
Greenhouse George 001 - An image of a nuclear explosion in the sky
The GEORGE Event, of the Greenhouse series, was a weapons related test conducted from a tower on Enewetak on 8 May 1951
Greenhouse George, atomic bomb, nuclear explosion
U.S. nuclear test "George" of Operation Greenhouse test series, 9 May 1951. The "George" shot was a "science experiment" showing the feasibility of the Teller-Ulam design concept (which would itself be fully te... More
Hardtack Blanca 001 - An old black and white photo of a volcano
Operation Hardtack II, BLANCA Event - Nevada Test Site, underground nuclear detonation BLANCA of the Operation Hardtack II series, 1958 October.
Hardtack De Baca 001 - A cloud of smoke rises over a desert landscape
Operation Hardtack - De Baca Test. A mushroom cloud rises from the desert floor at the Nevada Test Site. The nuclear test was a balloon burst detonated 26 October 1958. Since July 1962, all NTS weapons tests h... More
Hardtack II 001 - A series of images of a nuclear explosion
Nuclear history in less than two-thousandths of a second is recorded by a camera capable of speeds in excess of 15,000 frames per second. This sequence, taken at the Nevada Test Site in 1958, shows a low-yield... More
Hardtack II Blanca 002 - An old black and white photo of a volcano
Operation Hardtack II, BLANCA Event - Nevada Test Site, underground nuclear detonation BLANCA of the Operation Hardtack II series, 1958 October.
Hardtack II Blanca 003 - A black and white photo of a large plume of s...
Operation Hardtack II, BLANCA Event - Nevada Test Site, underground nuclear detonation BLANCA of the Operation Hardtack II series, 1958 October.
Hardtack II Blanca 004 - A black and white photo of a large plume of s...
Operation Hardtack II, BLANCA Event - Nevada Test Site, underground nuclear detonation BLANCA of the Operation Hardtack II series, 1958 October.
Hardtack II Blanca 005 - A black and white photo of a volcano spewing ...
Operation Hardtack II, BLANCA Event - Nevada Test Site, underground nuclear detonation BLANCA of the Operation Hardtack II series, 1958 October.
Hardtack II Eddy 001 - A black and white photo of a desert area
Operation Hardtack II, EDDY Event - Nevada Test Site, EDDY Event, first event of the 1958 fall series on 19 September 1958, at the Nevada Test Site. This event was detonated from a balloon 500-feet above Yucca Flat.
Hardtack II Eddy 002 - A black and white photo of a desert landscape
Operation Hardtack II, EDDY Event - Nevada Test Site, EDDY Event, first event of the 1958 fall series on 19 September 1958, at the Nevada Test Site. This event was detonated from a balloon 500-feet above Yucca Flat.
Harry Keller - A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie
1957 - Harry Keller
Herbert York - A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie
Herbert York, first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in 1957.
Herd of antelopes at the Nevada Test Site
Herd of antelope roam the foothills of Area 5 toward Mercury, Nevada.
Herd of wild horses at the the Nevada Test Site 1
Herd of wild horses at the the Nevada Test Site.
Herd of wild horses at the the Nevada Test Site 2
Herd of wild horses at the the Nevada Test Site.
Herd of wild horses at the the Nevada Test Site 3
Herd of wild horses at the the Nevada Test Site.
Herschell E. Parsons - A black and white photo of a man in a military ...
1957 - Colonel Herschell E. Parsons, U.S. Air Force, Deputy Test Manager for Military Matters, Operation Plumbbob.
Huron King test chamber 2
The Huron King test chamber containing a communications satellite and other space-related experiments is readied for its test on June 24, 1980 at Yucca Flat.
Huron King test chamber
Huron King Test Chamber, located to the right of 3-08 Road in Area 3, 600 meters from its original location. The Huron King test chamber contained a communications satellite and other space-related experiments... More
IceCap nuclear test 3 - A bunch of pipes laying on top of a dirt field
Icecap - Diagnostic cables snake their way across the desert landscape towards the Icecap tower in the background, which houses the diagnostic cannister. One of three ground zeros planned for 1993 (the others ... More
Initial flash of Plumbbob Franklin with men nearby to measure shock wa...
Initial flash of Plumbbob Franklin with ZSG air ship from Lakehurst Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, NJ, moored nearby to measure shock wave effects.
Ivy explosion - A black and white photo of a large mushroom cloud
U.S. nuclear weapon test Ivy Mike, 31 Oct 1952, on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific, the first test of a thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb).
Ivy King - distance - A group of people standing on top of a beach
A sunset over the ocean with people standing around it. A group of people standing on a beach. Public domain postcard scan.
Ivy King - mushroom cloud, Atomic Bomb Test
"Operation Ivy, KING Event - The KING Event was detonated on 15 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll."
Ivy King 001, atomic bomb, nuclear explosion
Operation Ivy, KING Event - The KING Event was detonated on 15 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll.
Ivy Mike - fireball, Atomic Bomb Test
U.S. nuclear weapon test Ivy Mike, 31 Oct 1952, the first test of a hydrogen bomb. This is a photo of the fireball a few microseconds after detonation, captured by high-speed camera. The fireball measured 3 1... More
Ivy Mike 001 - A black and white photo of a plane in the sky
Operation Ivy, MIKE EVENT - Atomic bomb explosion taken at a height of approximately 12,000 feet, 50 miles from the detonation site; mushroom cloud rose 40,000 feet ten minutes after zero hour, 31 October 1952... More