B-36 Operation Teapot - A black and white photo of a plane on a runway
NARA RG342-B...Operation Teapot at Nevada Test Site.. Public domain photograph of jet aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kiwi A at test cell post plan
Kiwi A at test cell post plan. Kiwi-A Prime is one of a series of atomic reactors for studying the feasibility of nuclear rocket propulsion, in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Developed by the Los Alamos Scientific Lab... More
Kiwi A fire-up - A fire is coming out of a building in the desert
Kiwi A fire-up. Kiwi-A Prime is one of a series of atomic reactors for studying the feasibility of nuclear rocket propulsion, in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Developed by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for the... More
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.
Nevada Test Site...Members of the party of 17 Canadian and United King...
Public domain photograph related to 1930s farming, farms, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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."
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.
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
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.
Camp Mercury under construction
Nevada Test Site. Camp Mercury while it was under construction.
Chukar at the Nevada Test Site
Chukar (Alectoris chukar) at the Nevada Test Site.
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
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.
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
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 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
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.
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.
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 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
IvyMike2, Atomic Bomb Test, atomic bomb, nuclear explosion
Nuclear weapon test Mike (yield 10.4 Mt) on Enewetak Atoll. The test was part of the Operation Ivy. Mike was the first hydrogen bomb ever tested, an experimental device not suitable for use as a weapon. Suomi:... More
Kit fox at the Nevada Test Site
Kit fox (vulpes macrotis). On the Nevada Test Site, this species commonly occurs in valleys and surrounding foothills within Mojave Desert and Transition Zone vegetation associations.
Kit foxes at the Nevada Test Site
Kit foxes peer from a culvert at a construction site on the NTS.
Mandrel Handley - downhole implacement
Nevada Test Site - Area 20. Mandrel Handley downhole implacement.
Mountain Cottontail at the Nevada Test Site
Mountain Cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii) at the Nevada Test Site.
N Tunnel portal area in Rainier Mesa
Portal area of the N tunnel complex in Area 12 of the Nevada Test Site.
NATO official holding his ears in preparation for the nuclear explosio...
Operation Plumbbob, BOLTZMANN Event - A photograph of NATO observers attending BOLTZMANN Event (28 May 1957) detonation at Nevada Test Site.
Nevada Desert FACE Facility
Nevada Test Site - Area 5 Nevada Desert Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Facility. Original caption: FACE (Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment) Facility. This state-of-the-art facility uses FACE technology d... More
Nevada Test Site - Control Point
Control Point, Nevada Test Site. The Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office Test Controller and members of the Test Advisory Panel (at table) prepare to conduct Schellbourne, an underground nuclear tes... More
Nevada Test Site craters
The crater-scarred landscape of the Nevada Test Site. Original caption: Most subsidences leave saucer-shaped craters varying in diameter and depth, depending upon the yield, depth of burial, and geology. Thi... More
NNSA-NSO-1000, Atomic Bomb Test Site
TEAPOT - The Marine heliteam leader (last man out of copter) gives the thumbs-up to the pilot which signals that the last of the assault Marines has cleared the copter and the whirlybird can take off for anothe... More
NNSA-NSO-1001, Atomic Bomb Test Site
TEAPOT - Marines camp amidst the copters that carried them to their objective during extensive atomic maneuvers this week on the Nevada Test Site.
NNSA-NSO-1003, Atomic Bomb Test Site
TEAPOT - Pictured above is the B-36 intercontinental bomber crew from the Air Force Special Weapons Center which delivered the high-explosive device over the Nevada Test Site today. The device was detonated aga... More
NNSA-NSO-1006, Atomic Bomb Test Site
TEAPOT - Concentrating on the controls of the huge B-36 bomber which dropped the high explosive device detonated over the Nevada Test Site this morning is aircraft commander Capt. William L. Hickey, Tacoma, Was... More
NNSA-NSO-1008, Atomic Bomb Test Site
TEAPOT - This is a pilotless QF-80 jet fighter of the Air Proving Ground Command's 3205th Drone Group which will fly through an atomic blast during Operation Teapot at the Nevada Test Site. The drone, remotely ... More
NNSA-NSO-1010 - A black and white photo of a group of soldiers
TEAPOT/MET - ATOMIC CLOUD of April 15, 1955 detonation at Frenchman Flat viewed from 15 miles away by four Camp Desert Rock soldiers who remained behind at the camp while 150 of their buddies went forward to th... More
NNSA-NSO-1022 - A large stack of metal barrels sitting in the middle o...
Steel cargo containers of transuranic waste are being stacked for above ground storage at the Nevada Test Site Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site. This historic photo shows storage of the waste prior to ... More
NNSA-NSO-1023 - A crane is lifting a container onto a truck
Steel cargo containers of solid transuranic waste are being stacked for above ground storage at the Nevada Test Site Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site. Each container holds up to 50 drums of transuranic ... More
NNSA-NSO-1085 - A black and white photo of an explosion
Operation Teapot, WASP Event - Nevada Test Site, NV - The first event of Operation Teapot, the spring 1955 series of nuclear tests at NTS, was detonated 18 February 1955. Pictured is nuclear cloud forming from fireball.
NNSA-NSO-1109, atomic bomb, nuclear explosion
Operation Teapot, MET Event - Nevada Test Site, the 15 April 1955, atomic event at Nevada Test Site (NTS).
NNSA-NSO-1113, atomic bomb, nuclear explosion
Operation Teapot, APPLE-2 Event - Nevada Test Site, the 5 May 1955, Open Atomic Test at Nevada Test Site (NTS).
NNSA-NSO-1152, Atomic Bomb Test
Nevada Test Site. EPA Farm.
NNSA-NSO-1174 - A group of people standing in a parking lot
HAZMAT/WMD training exercise at the Nevada Test Site.
NNSA-NSO-1175 - A group of people in gas masks and protective gear
HAZMAT/WMD training exercise at the Nevada Test Site.
NNSA-NSO-1176 - A group of people in blue and green uniforms
HAZMAT/WMD training exercise at the Nevada Test Site.
NNSA-NSO-1177 - A group of people in protective gear walking down a ro...
WMD/Counter terrorism training exercise at the Phoenix facility on the Nevada Test Site.
NNSA-NSO-1180 - A couple of men in white suits holding guns
WMD/Counter terrorism training exercise at the Nevada Test Site.
NNSA-NSO-1181 - A group of men in military gear standing next to a bui...
WMD/Counter terrorism training exercise at the Phoenix facility on the Nevada Test Site.
NNSA-NSO-1182 - A factory with a lot of smoke coming out of it
WMD/Counter terrorism training exercise at the Phoenix facility on the Nevada Test Site.
NNSA-NSO-1184 - A group of firefighters standing next to a fire truck
Emergency response exercise at the Nevada Test Site.
NNSA-NSO-1189 - A group of people in protective gear walking down a di...
WMD/Counter terrorism training exercise at the Nevada Test Site.
NNSA-NSO-1293 - An aerial view of a desert area with a large building
SOLID LOW-LEVEL WASTES generated by weapons production are packaged, transported, and buried without changing the package integrity. (Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site, Nevada Test Site)
NNSA-NSO-1300 - A group of people standing in a tunnel
Mining in Rainier Mesa is an around-the-clock operation on the Nevada Test Site. Shown is an instrumentation alcove in T-Tunnel during the early stages of mining. Diagnostic equipment will gather scientific dat... More
NNSA-NSO-1303 - A group of men working on a large body of water
Nevada Test Site Area 23 Landfill closure. Installation of liner extrusion welding boot around access tubes.
NNSA-NSO-1334 - A black and white photo of a construction site
PLUMBBOB - 1957 - NEVADA TEST SITE -- One of nine shelters, sponsored by the West German Government, to be tested by nuclear detonation in late August. The shelter shown above is about 40 percent complete, bein... More
NNSA-NSO-1347 - A large structure in the middle of a desert
Nevada Test Site, Area 11. This structure containing experiments was placed above the Diagonal Line underground test. A line-of-site pipe extended from where the nuclear device had been buried underground int... More
NNSA-NSO-1437 - A group of people standing in a desert area
Unexploded ordnance (UXO) removal activities in Area 18 of the Nevada Test Site (Corrective Action Unit 511)
NNSA-NSO-1439 - A truck parked next to a bunch of shipping containers
Workers guide a forklift driver positioning a metal box containing low-level waste in disposal cell 10 at the Nevada Test Site Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site
NNSA-NSO-1440 - A man standing on a ladder next to a truck
Flatbed trailer is survey for contamination following the unloading of metal boxes containing low-level waste that were disposed in cell 10 at the Nevada Test Site Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site
NNSA-NSO-1441 - A group of people standing around a crane
Crane unloads low-level waste concrete monolith in disposal cell 16 at Nevada Test Site Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site
NNSA-NSO-1442 - A train traveling through a lush green valley
Underground Test Area drill site (ER-12-4) in Area 12 of the Nevada Test Site
NNSA-NSO-1443 - A man standing in the middle of a field
Global Positioning System survey conducted at the Environmental Protection Agency Farm in Area 15 of the Nevada Test Site (Corrective Action Unit 543)
NNSA-NSO-1444 - A man in a hard hat is working on a bulldozer
Excavated soil surveyed for radioactive contamination and sampled at the Environmental Protection Agency Farm in Area 15 of the Nevada Test Site (Corrective Action Unit 543)
NNSA-NSO-1445 - A man in an orange safety vest is digging a hole in th...
A radiation technician conducts a spot survey on debris at Corrective Action Unit 511, Site A located on the Nevada Test Site
NNSA-NSO-1446 - A large semi truck is parked in a lot
Shipment of low-level waste contained in metal boxes awaits unloading and disposal at the Area 3 Radioactive Waste Management Site located on the Nevada Test Site
NNSA-NSO-1447 - A sign on the side of a dirt road
Nevada Test Site Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Complex
NNSA-NSO-1448 - Two men standing next to each other in a garage
A Low-Level Waste Generator Workshop participant visits the Real-Time Radiography facility (Bldg. 5-6) at the Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site during a Nevada Test Site tour
NNSA-NSO-1449 - A drilling rig in the middle of a construction site
Underground Test Area well drilling site (ER-16-1) in Area 16 of the Nevada Test Site
NNSA-NSO-1450 - A couple of men standing next to each other
Nevada Test Site Community Advisory Board members tour an Underground Test Area well drilling site (ER-16-1) in Area 16 of the Nevada Test Site
NNSA-NSO-1451 - A group of men working on a building
Workers prepare to remove lead bricks at Test Cell A located on the Nevada Test Site
NNSA-NSO-1456 - A couple of people in white suits working on a plant
Sampling of Nevada Test Site Area 2 camp septic tank