Search Results: Explosives Test Site
An explosive weapons development and testing site is located in the Potrero Hills, between the marsh and Travis Air Force Base. The Explosives Technology Company first developed the site in 1967, taking over an old Nike missile site, and acquiring a few hundred...
The Gasbuggy Nuclear Test Site is the location of a 1967 underground nuclear explosion, conducted to test the viability of using a nuclear device to aid in natural gas extraction. It was part of the Plowshare Program, the program to develop peaceful uses of nuclear...
The Nevada Test Site (NTS) is a 1,350 square miles (860,000 acres) restricted area in southern Nevada, owned and operated by the Department of Energy. It is a multi-use, open-air laboratory that was the primary location of the nuclear weapons testing program for the...
Two nuclear detonations performed in a subterranean salt dome formation in Mississippi, as part of a 1960's Atomic Energy Commission Test. The test program, called Project Dribble, called for creating an underground cavity, using a nuclear bomb to do so, then later...
This facility is one of the foremost explosives and explosion effects research laboratories in the world. In its 32 square miles of restricted terrain, all sorts of things have been blown up under intense scientific scrutiny. Facilities include a hypervelocity light...
The Project Gnome Site is the location of a 1961 underground nuclear test conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission, near Loving, New Mexico. This was the first test in the Plowshare Program, a program to develop peaceful uses for nuclear weapons. The Lawrence...
An underground nuclear test took place at this site in 1973, to investigate the possibility of using nuclear explosions to extract natural gas from low grade deposits. The test, the last in the Plowshare Program, called Rio Blanco, was performed by the Atomic Energy...
An underground nuclear detonation took place at this site in 1969, to investigate the possibility of using nuclear explosions to extract natural gas from low grade deposits. The test, a Plowshare Program experiment called Project Rulison, was performed by the Atomic...
The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, also called New Mexico Tech, is a technical university and part of the state university system. Though enrollment is only around 1,600, NM Tech is significant as the parent organization for several major research and...
A commercial munitions and explosives test facility, adjacent to the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Lab test facility, Site 300. Operated for years by Physics International, a company that works in explosive research and pulsed power applications....
Thiokol builds NASA’s space shuttle rocket boosters at this isolated facility near the Promontory Mountains. Other defense and propulsions systems are developed and tested here by Thiokol, on this major R&D and production site, part of which was once designated as...
The Malta Test Station is a 165-acre industrial R...
A test range and proving ground located in the bare, rolling Altamont Hills between the town of Tracy and Lawrence Livermore National Lab. One of the premier explosives R...
The site of the world's first nuclear blast, the Trinity shot of the Manhattan Project, is on the north end of the 4,000 square mile White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The site consists of a fenced area that encloses much of the ground-zero area, with a monument...
The Transportation Technology Center is a field test site for the railroad transportation industry, located in a remote site in the plains of central Colorado. It is probably the largest railway R&D center in the country, with over 48 miles of dedicated, looped...
White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) at nearly 4,000 square miles, is one of the largest military facilities in the country. It is primarily a test range with the main function of supporting missile development and test programs for the Army, Navy, Air Force, National...
Port Chicago is the name associated with the tidal portion of the 13,000 acre Concord Naval Weapons Station, the largest coastal munitions storage facility in the West. The site is in transition, with portions being transferred from the Navy to the Army, and Navy...
Eglin is one of the Air Force's largest bases, and is a major test center for non-nuclear munitions. Located on the coast of the panhandle of Florida, the base covers 724 square miles of land, and has 97,963 miles of water ranges in the Gulf. Facilities include: a...
Kirtland Air Force Base is one of the most vital and active military facilities in the country, with over 20,000 people working within its secured perimeter, at the south end of Albuquerque. The heavily built up part of the base, generally north and east of the runways...
The University of California has operated an engineering field station on a portion of this former chemical industry site on the Bay since 1950, conducting building engineering testing, forestry products research, transportation studies and environmental research at a...