Line-of-sight pipes are fabricated inside tunnels at Rainier Mesa on Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site. The Department of Energy works with the Defense Nuclear Agency in measuring the effects of blast-produced radiation on military hardware.
Protestors at the Nevada Test Site. Pictured on the left is O. Suleĭmenov, the Kazakh poet and leader of Nevada Semipalatinsk Movement, circa 1980-1999.
A protestor at the Nevada Test Site performing a religious ritual with what appears to be a ceramic bowl circa 1980-1999. For a similar image see pho006407.
A mushroom cloud rises from the desert floor at the Nevada Test Site. The nuclear test, named DeBaca, was a balloon burst fired in October 1958. (All Nuclear Test Site weapons tests have been underground since July 1962.)