Nuclear Weapons Test Shakes Las Vegas
The government conducted its fifth nuclear weapons test of the year this weekend after a series of weather-related delays at the Nevada Test Site.
Monitors in downtown Las Vegas and atop high-rise hotels on the Las Vegas Strip detected motion from the Saturday blast 105 miles away.
The test was code-named Hoya and the weapon, buried 2,200 feet, had an explosive yield equivalent to between 20 and 150 kilotons of TNT, the Department of Energy said.
Soviet scientists spent several weeks earlier this summer monitoring preparations for the blast but were not present Saturday. Soviet observers monitored a test in August, 1988.
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