Talk:Nevada Test Site

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Isn't Yucca Mountain located on the Nevada Test Site? --mav

For future Wikipedians, there is a great DOE reference listing nuclear tests at [1]

Contents 1 Weapon versus device 2 I, hereby, advocate that 3 1992 - Present 4 Contradiction

[edit] Weapon versus device

This article pretty uniformly refers to the testing of weapons, when really both weapons and devices were tested at NTS. A weapon would refer to a nuclear device that was actually designed and implemented for use in warfare, such as a warhead for a missile or a bomb that could be loaded into an airplane. A device could be a prototype or something that created an explosion for scientific or testing purposes.

A lot of weapons were tested at NTS, as they were being developed and the military needed to practice their deployment and use. But a lot of tests at NTS were scientific, and the devices they used were not of the sort that could be quickly loaded into the bomb bay of a B-52 and hauled into combat duty.

I realize the semantics of the "all nuclear explosions are bad and therefore are weapons", but it's also important to note that NTS wasn't just a parking lot where the army lit off existing nuclear weapons just to see what would happen. --Jkonrath 18:12, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

• I'm not sure anyone is using the term to be pejorative. On NTS's website[2], the phrase "nuclear weapons testing" is used consistently to describe their overall mission and testing programs; "nuclear device" is used to refer to individual test charges, though almost always only in regards to Plowshares tests. While it is true that a large amount of testing was not of deliverable weapons, I do not think the distinction between a nuclear weapon and a nuclear device is very clear, and I don't think it is worth fretting over much. --Fastfission 16:48, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Those comments seem illogical; did this page ever claim that "all nuclear explosions are bad and therefore are weapons"? That might be a worthy claim {likely is}; but, the pov seems to be worthy of commentary.

[[ hopiakuta | [[ [[%c2%a1]] [[%c2%bf]] [[ %7e%7e%7e%7e ]] -]] 21:41, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I, hereby, advocate that

thiis would link to:

Montebello_Islands;

Monte Bello;

Operation_Hurricane;

Maralinga,_South_Australia;

British_nuclear_tests_at_Maralinga.

These webpages claim to have been updated, revised, in 2001:

< http://anawa.org.au/sa/honeymoon.html >;

< http://anawa.org.au/news/honeymoon-approve.html >.

These pages refer to a "liquid nuclear waste dump" @ "Honeymoon uranium mine"; which is also mentioned regarding Jeannie_Lewis, Australian musician.

On < http://anawa.org.au >, there is a quote that "We can either remain in the frying pan of coal, jump into the fire of nuclear, or extinguish the flames with renewables".

That quote seems pov; however, I think that it is sufficiently demonstrably true that it should be in the articles.

Thank You.

[[ hopiakuta | [[ [[%c2%a1]] [[%c2%bf]] [[ %7e%7e%7e%7e ]] -]] 21:41, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Regarding that very top comment, I see that there is a caption of "The Yucca Flat area of the Nevada Test Site is scarred with subsidence craters from underground nuclear testing."

[[ hopiakuta | [[ [[%c2%a1]] [[%c2%bf]] [[ %7e%7e%7e%7e ]] -]] 22:01, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1992 - Present

I altered the sentence in the 1992 - Present section which read: "Additionally, all image taking devices are prohibited, and tour members are required to wear Dosimeters." I added that no communication devices are allowed either, and I removed the second half of the sentence which stated that tour participants wear dosimeters. I went on the tour, and the only person on the bus who wore a dosimeter was the guide. Missile test, July 7, 2007.

[edit] Contradiction

The infobox says "925+" nuclear tests. But the text says 928 in 1951-1992. Something is wrong. --Ysangkok (talk) 16:08, 26 November 2007 (UTC)