Origins of the Nevada Test Site

By Fehner, Terrence R.

Book Id: WPLBN0000699692
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 3.24 MB.
Reproduction Date: 2006

Title:	Origins of the Nevada Test Site
Author:	Fehner, Terrence R.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Energy, Energy and research series
Collections:	Department of Energy Collection
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Excerpt
Excerpt: Origins of the Nevada Test Site was written in conjunction with the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Nevada Test Site. The history was released at the official celebration held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 18, 2000, fifty years after President Harry S. Truman formally designated the site as the location for conducting nuclear weapons tests within the continental United States. The history represents a unique partnership between a field office and two headquarters offices of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Department?s Nevada Operations Office provided the initial impetus for the project and offered support and resources throughout the researching and writing of the history. The Office of Defense Programs of the Department?s National Nuclear Security Administration provided funding for printing the history. The History Division of the Department?s Executive Secretariat researched and wrote the history. Acknowledgments

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Dropping the Bomb: The Able Shot, 1 -- Part I: The Nevada Test Site: Description -- and Early History, 5 -- The Nevada Test Site: What and Where, 5 -- Pre?History and Native Americans, 6 -- Explorers and Forty?Niners, 7 -- Mining and Grazing, 8 -- Boom and Bust Towns, 10 -- Wahmonie, 14 -- Las Vegas, 17 -- The Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range, 20 -- Part II: The Birth of the Nuclear Age, 1919?1947, 23 -- Neutrons, Fission, and Chain Reactions, 23 -- Albert Einstein and the Atomic Bomb, 24 -- The Manhattan Project, 26 -- Bomb Design, 29 -- The Trinity Test, 30 -- War's End, 32 -- Crossroads, 32 -- Postwar Control of the Atom and the Onset of the Cold War, 34 -- Part III: The Search for a -- Continental Test Site, 1947?1950, 37 -- Sandstone, 37 -- Continental Test Site Reconsidered, 39 -- Project Nutmeg, 40 -- The Cold War Heats Up, 42 -- Renewed Search for a Continental Test Site, 43 -- Fallout and the Continental Test Site, 44 -- President Truman Hesitates and the Joint Chiefs Decide on Enewetak, 46 -- President Truman Decides on a Continental Test Site, 47