Nevada Test Site (NTS), nuclear testing site operated by the U.S. Department of Energy and located in Nye County, Nevada, that saw a total of 928 nuclear explosive tests between January 1951 and September 1992.
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November—Los Alamos is selected as the site for an atomic bomb laboratory. ... September—The first contained underground nuclear weapons test, Rainier, occurs at ...