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Battlefield of the Cold War The Nevada Test Site
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Charlie promised to be a Big Shot, as the press dubbed the nations twenty-fifth nuclear weapons test. With a projected explosive yield equivalent to thirty-three kilotons of TNT, Charlie would be the largest test conducted to date at the Nevada Proving Ground, formerly-and again to be-the Nevada Test Site. Charlie also was big in the sense that for the first time a nuclear weapons test would be held as an open shot that allowed a significant degree of public access. For the first time, as well, ground and airborne troops would conduct military maneuvers on a simulated nuclear battlefield following the shot. By 9:00 a.m. on April 22, 1952, at H-hour minus thirty minutes,* all was ready and in place for Charlie. Hundreds of observers, dignitaries, and reporters, previously banned from the site, had gathered on a small hill newly christened News Nob, about nine miles south of ground zero, to await the blast.
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