After 800 nuclear tests from 1951 and 1992, this is the view over the Nevada Test Site (formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds).
All the craters seen in the photograph are from below ground tests and are collapse features from subsidence into...

After 800 nuclear tests from 1951 and 1992, this is the view over the Nevada Test Site (formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds). 

All the craters seen in the photograph are from below ground tests and are collapse features from subsidence into the largely vaporized detonation zone.

Photographer and source unknown.


Source: ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.be
6 years ago • 3,995 notes • January 7th
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