Search Results: Nuclear Weapons
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...
Hanford is one of five major Department of Energy nuclear processing plants and R...
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 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...
The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History is the new name for the National Atomic Museum. Before 9/11, the National Atomic Museum was located on Kirtland Air Force Base, and operated by Sandia National Lab. After a few years at a temporary location next to the...
Owned by the Department of Energy and operated for many years by Monsanto and EG&G, the Mound Plant produced detonation devices for nuclear weapons and conducted research on nuclear fuels and isotope separation, starting in 1947. The primary activity at this plant...
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...
Los Alamos National Lab is one of the three principal diversified Department of Energy nuclear research and development labs, along with Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Labs. It employs around 12,000 people, occupies 43 square miles and consumes over two...
Now officially a remediated wildlife area, Rocky Flats was one of the seven original primary nuclear weapons component facilities. The 6,550-acre site, 16 miles from downtown Denver, had a heavily industrialized 384-acre complex surrounded by a mostly undeveloped...
Nuclear R&D and training site operates by the DOE. For a few decades the site had a full-scale nuclear reactor prototype for testing and training of Navy personnel, operated by Knolls Lab. That site was remediated in 2006, and is now mostly gone. Other tech...
The nation's primary chemical and biological weapons testing and training site, Dugway Proving Ground is a unique defense site that combines the microscopic world of its chemical and biological laboratories with large-scale testing and training. The land within Dugway'...
Bangor Sub Base manages the third largest collection of nuclear weapons in the country, with approximately 1,700 Trident missiles either stored at its hill-top depot, or onboard its fleet of eight Trident submarines which still roam the seas on secret missions. The...
The Tonopah Test Range is a 525 square mile test facility on the north end of the Air Force's 4,000 square mile Nellis Range Complex in Nevada, and is the principal weapons field test site for Sandia Labs, based in New Mexico. There are major facilities here, including...
The Savannah River Site is a 310-square-mile Department of Energy (DOE) facility located on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River. It is one of the major nuclear materials processing plants in the United States, and is operated by the Westinghouse Company. The...
Originally the final assembly facility for the nation's nuclear weapons, Pantex is currently the nation's only nuclear weapons disassembly and plutonium storage site. An old WWII Army munitions plant, the facility was converted to nuclear device assembly in 1951, when...
For many years, an office on the third floor of this building in Wellesley was the official headquarters for a remarkable engineering company known as EG&G. Founded by Doc Edgerton, the MIT professor famous for his strobe photography, and two of his former students...
Located in Livermore, California, adjacent to the Lawrence Livermore National Lab Complex, this Sandia facility employs about 1,000 people. It was established in 1956 to support Lawrence Livermore's nuclear testing program (Sandia Lab, based at Kirtland Air Force Base...
General Dynamic's Electric Boat division operates a hull fabrication plant here, where large Navy vessels are assembled, mostly nuclear submarine hulls. The partially built vessels are barged to Electric Boat's main facility in Groton, Connecticut. The 169-acre...
Draper Lab is a private, nonprofit R...
General Dynamics Electric Boat Division in Groton is one of the most significant submarine manufacturing sites in the world. Many Trident nuclear submarines have been built here (costing around $1.5 billion each), as well as Seawolf attack submarines, and other types...