U.S. explodes nuclear bomb beneath desert in Nevada

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: March 23, 1986 | Copyright information

YUCCA FLAT, Nev. A nuclear bomb up to 10 times as powerful as the one that the United States used to destroy Hiroshima was exploded deep beneath the Nevada desert yesterday despite pleas from congressmen to cancel it and join the Soviet Union in its moratorium on nuclear testing.

The bomb, code-named "Glencoe," was detonated without incident at 10:15 a.m. Chicago time, 2,000 feet beneath the surface of Yucca Flat at the Nevada Test Site, said Department of Energy spokesman Jim Boye...

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