Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

At the Project Shoal site, where a nuclear weapon was detonated on Oct. 26, 1963, about 1,200 feet underground, there's little evidence of the blast. This piece of aged metal sits by one of the pads at the site in Churchill County, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013.

Matt Hufman

At the Project Shoal site, where a nuclear weapon was detonated on Oct. 26, 1963, about 1,200 feet underground, there's little evidence of the blast. This piece of aged metal sits by one of the pads at the site in Churchill County, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013.