Frenchman Flat is a hydrographic basin in the Nevada National Security Site south of Yucca Flat and north of Mercury, Nevada. The flat was used as an American...
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Flat is located at the eastern edge of NTS, about ten miles (16 km) north of Frenchman Flat, and 65 miles (105 km) from Las Vegas, Nevada. Yucca Flat...
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Look up Frenchman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A Frenchman is a French person. Frenchman may also refer to: Frenchman, Nevada, an unincorporated...
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Nevada Test Site (redirect from Yucca Flat Test Site)
nuclear devices. The first atmospheric test was conducted at the site's Frenchman Flat area by the United States Atomic Energy Commission (USAEC) on January...
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shot Priscilla (37 kt), 719 pigs were used in various experiments on Frenchman Flat. Some pigs were placed in elevated cages and provided with suits made...
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bombs were dropped by B-50D bombers and exploded in the open air over Frenchman Flat (Area 5). These tests centered on the practicality of developing a second...
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Frenchman Lake may refer to: Frenchman Flat Frenchman Lake (California) Frenchman Lake (Nova Scotia) Frenchman Lake (Yukon) This disambiguation page lists...
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Albuquerque, New Mexico dropped atomic bombs in a series of tests in Frenchman Flat, Nevada from 1951 to 1953. The 301st Bombardment Wing at MacDill Air...
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to destruction. The other (46-688) survived three atomic blasts at Frenchman Flat within the Nevada Test Site in 1952. The XF-90 lived on as the jet fighter...
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the atomic cannon was tested at the Nevada Test Site (specifically Frenchman Flat) as part of the Upshot–Knothole series of nuclear tests. The test—codenamed...
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