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	U.S. NUCLEAR TESTING FROM PROJECT TRINITY TO THE PLOWSHARE PROGRAM
		The general objectives of the tests were to determine the effects of these detonations and to study the devices for inclusion in the nuclear arsenal (8: 20-21).
		Because the testing and improvement of various nuclear weapons was crucial to American defense policy, a number of tests needed to be conducted before the moratorium began.
		The initial PROJECT 57 test was conducted to spread alpha-emitting material (plutonium) in a defined area to study the biological effects of alpha radiation and to test monitoring and decontamination procedures (22: 23,8).
	www.cddc.vt.edu /host/atomic/atmosphr/ustests.html (14210 words)

	Shundahai Network
		Resuming with the deeply buried Sedan cratering experiment in mid-1962 and extending through early 1991, a number of underground nuclear tests were conducted in Area 10.
		A number of the underground tests detonated in Area 10 were simultaneous detonations of multiple devices in the same emplacement hole, while others involved the firing of multiple devices, but with each of the nuclear devices located in separate emplacement holes.
		Sedan was the first in a series of 23 Plowshare experiments conducted at the NTS to develop peaceful uses (?) of nuclear explosives.
	www.shundahai.org /area_10_nts.htm (387 words)

	Sedan (nuclear test) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Storax Sedan was a nuclear test conducted at the Nevada Test Site at 37.177048° N 116.046653° W by the United States on July 6, 1962 as part of Operation Plowshare program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining, cratering, and other civilian purposes.
		On March 2, 2005 Ellen Tauscher, a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing the state of California, gave congressional testimony on the containment of nuclear testing debris, using the Sedan test as an example of one which produced a considerable amount of radioactive fallout.
		A reporter mistook the word Sedan for the Sudan, an east African nation, and this mistake was placed into the Congressional Record.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sedan_(nuclear_test) (754 words)

	CNN.com - What a blast! - Mar 11, 2005
		Sedan crater in Nevada, shortly after the 1962 detonation.
		The "Sedan" nuclear test became the "Sudan" nuclear test.
		He noted that the transcript referred to it as the Sudan nuclear test site, but quickly recognized that the blast described was identical to the "Project Sedan" test -- which was conducted to determine if nuclear devices could be used for peaceful purposes such as cratering or earth moving.
	www.cnn.com /2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sedan.blast/index.html (740 words)

	Pahrump Valley Times - Nye County's Largest Newspaper Circulation
		The NNSA summary states, however, that contaminated air emissions were detected on the test site in 2002, consisting of small amounts of tritium, americium and plutonium that were released through evaporation of water contaminated by tritium in area five, north of Mercury, and from area 10 near the Sedan Crater.
		The report noted plutonium concentrations have gradually decreased, after the termination of nuclear testing in 1992 and a reduction in field activities that can cause a re-suspension of the radioactive material.
		While the environmental management program is targeting a cleanup of radioactive material from the 828 nuclear tests in the past, Gertz said any contamination generated by future tests would be the responsibility of those conducting the experiment.
	www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com /2004/03/03/news/testsite.html (1159 words)

	Nevada Division of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Federal Facilities - Underground Nuclear Testing
		The tower served as infrastructure for holding and inserting the nuclear test devise in the underground shaft.
		Sedan Crater: Sedan Crater was formed with a 100 kiloton nuclear explosive devise -- the devise was buried 635 feet below the desert alluvium.
		Sedan was fired at the NTS on July 6, 1962; it displaced 12 million tons of earth.
	ndep.nv.gov /boff/photo02.htm (244 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bush pushes for next generation of nukes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Throughout the Nevada Test Site, the ground is strewn with mangled buildings and pockmarked with craters, the ghostly evidence of the 928 nuclear tests the government conducted here from 1951 to 1992.
		But "Icecap," the test of a bomb 10 times the size of the one that devastated the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945, was halted when the first President Bush placed a moratorium on U.S. nuclear tests in October 1992.
		That policy paper embraces the use of nuclear weapons in a first strike and on the battlefield; it also says a return to nuclear testing may soon be necessary.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2003-07-06-nuclear-usat_x.htm (2067 words)

	DOE - NNSA/NSO -- Nevada Test Site Tours
		Nonproliferation Test and Evaluation Complex is used by the chemical and petroleum industry and government agencies to test spill dispersion and mitigation and cleanup procedures.
		Sedan was a cratering experiment as part of the Plowshare program - the peaceful uses of nuclear explosives.
		Because the test site is a restricted access government reservation, visitors must apply well in advance for tours tailored to their individual interests and needs.
	www.nv.doe.gov /nts/tours.htm (590 words)

	Operation Storax
		Sedan was one of the most spectacular nuclear test ever fired in the continental U.S. It was an LRL test conducted under the auspices of the Plowshare program, which was an attempt to develop non-military uses for nuclear explosives.
		The purpose of Sedan was to investigate the potential of "clean" thermonuclear devices for producing large craters cheaply (for canal or harbor construction for example).
		Sedan was detonated at what was estimated to be the optimal crater depth in alluvial soil.
	nuclearweaponarchive.org /Usa/Tests/Storax.html (1189 words)

	Kennedy-Feinstein Amendment on Bunker Busters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The potential of one 10-kiloton nuclear weapon missing from the Russian arsenal acquired by terrorists to be detonated in an American city was devastating news to an intelligence community that became apoplectic about it, and should have been.
		The United States pledged in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty ``to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament.'' This is still a worthy objective.
		It spoke of possibly needing to develop and test new types of nuclear weapons, gave that as a reason for increasing our nuclear test readiness, and said that nuclear weapons might be used to neutralize chemical or biological agents.
	www.ananuclear.org /kenn-feinFY05bunkerbuster.html (13928 words)

	Local News - thespectrum.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Before the Nevada Proving Grounds was established, five tests ranging from 18 to 49 kilotons were conduced at Bikini and Enewetak Atolls in the Pacific Ocean from June 1946 to 1948.
		Nuclear devises were dropped from planes, detonated at or near ground level, shot from a 280 mm cannon, placed on towers and suspended from balloons.
		Secret nuclear testing on humans is revealed by both the U.S. and C.I.S. May 11 — 178 nations renew the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
	www.thespectrum.com /news/extras/testsite.html (1589 words)

	Sedan Delivery -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sedan, Minnesota, USA Sedan was also the name of a plowshare nuclear test conducted by the United States at its Nevada Test Site in 1962 which resulted in a massive crater:
		Sedan is the largest city and county seat of Chautauqua County, Kansas.
		During the Franco-Prussian War, on September 2, 1870 the French emperor Napoleon III was taken prisoner with 100,000 of his soldiers at the Battle of Sedan.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/131/sedan-delivery.html (1645 words)

	North Korea says nuclear test successful - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
		This is going to be something...look at it this way we invade iraq on the premise that they might have nuclear weapons, yet they did not test or detonate anything that would even prove there was a WMD in their possesion.
		Nuclear weaponry programs in particular usually don't employ most of their population, and they definatly won't feed the population.
		Close comparison: The "Sedan" nuclear test on July 6, 1962 was a 104 kiloton nuclear device that generated a 4.75 magnitude earthquake 635 feet underground.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread228993/pg1 (2487 words)

	Sedan Crater on Historic Nevada: KNPB Online
		These tests were designed to show that nuclear devices could quickly and cheaply move massive amounts of earth in the digging of canals and harbors.
		The Sedan test, July 6, 1962, was part of this program.
		The sedan test sent a cloud of radioactivity towards Salt Lake City.
	www.knpb.org /productions/historicnevada/sedan.asp (235 words)

	Nuclear Weapons
		Nuclear weapons, both those in the U.S. and in other countries of the world, represent new and unexplored challenges for the United States in the Post-Cold War world.
		When examined after an underground nuclear test explosion, these cracks and vents show evidence of burning and charring from the passage of super-heated gases from the fireball, indicating that an underground facility close enough to the detonation to lie inside the ruptured zone might be consumed by the nuclear conflagration.
		Using the correlation between publicly announced tests and the known periods of warhead development, it is estimated that there have been at least eight full-yield detonations of the W-76 warhead during and after development.
	web.mit.edu /stgs/nuclearweapons.html (1115 words)

	The Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program
		The bomb's yield was reduced from its design yield for the test by about half by replacing part of the Li-6 D fusion fuel with "a passive material" (probably ordinary lithium hydride).
		This test was a near copy of the US Sedan test, a 104 Kt subsurface cratering experiment.
		The nuclear explosive used for the Chagan test was reported to be a low-fission design, which had a pure thermonuclear secondary driven by a fission primary with a yield of about 5-7 kt.
	nuclearweaponarchive.org /Russia/Sovwpnprog.html (2117 words)

	IMINT / DOE - Nevada Test Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sedan Crater was formed when a 100 kt.
		Explosive buried under 635 feet of desert alluvium was fired at the NTS on July 6, 1962, displacing 12 million tons of earth.
		Click on the image for the full-sized view.
	www.fas.org /irp/imint/doe_nts_nf121.htm (50 words)

	Sedan, oops Sudan, complains about typo - Peculiar Postings - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		But Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail, who had summoned the U.S. charge d’affaires on hearing the news, said on Thursday it turned out that the word Sudan was merely a typing error for Sedan, the name of a nuclear test site in Nevada.
		A U.S. embassy official in Khartoum said a statement had been issued affirming no tests were made in Sudan, but did not say how the mistake had happened.
		The official transcript of the hearing, in the strategic forces subcommittee on March 2, has already been corrected, with a note saying the word Sedan was misspelt in the original.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7148667 (452 words)

	What a blast! 1962 nuclear test still shaking things up, half a world away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Let it be known that mistakes can travel just as fast and just as far.
		Tauscher's remarks were little noticed, until they were transcribed incorrectly in an unofficial transcript of the hearing.
		I bet eye witnesses to the Sudan Nuclear blast will be coming out of the woods any day.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1361397/posts (645 words)

	Nuclear Files: Library: Media Gallery: Video Files: Testing Footage
		Nuclear Files: Library: Media Gallery: Video Files: Testing Footage
		You can download a free copy of the Windows Media Player here.
		Copyright © 1998 - Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
	www.nuclearfiles.org /menu/library/media-gallery/video/testing (97 words)

	DOE - NNSA/NSO -- Historical Test Films
		Click the Number, Title, or Date table header links to sort the information.
		Complete the Historical Test Film Order Form to order Historical Test films
		Starfish Prime Test Interim and Fishbowl Auroral Sequences
	www.nv.doe.gov /library/films/testfilms.aspx (145 words)

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