Yucca Flat News Today

Yucca Flat, Nevada is considered the most cratered landscape on Earth, not from ancient asteroids, but from nearly a thousand nuclear bomb tests by the United States during the Cold War.

Between 1945 and 1996, more than 2,000 nuclear tests were conducted, three-quarters of which were underground. What is their environmental legacy?

The Labor Party wants to limit the political influence of large donors, and Adam Bandts huge expense report (including private jets).

It remains far too quiet at the White House this Christmas. Iran alarmingly is on the cusp of building a nuclear bomb and the Biden administration appears oblivious that we are now on the eve of Armageddon in the Middle East. 

  The Northern Light held a roundtable discussion with veterans at the Blaine Senior Center on what Veterans Day and being a veteran means to them. Below are their responses, edited for clarity …

RENO, Nevada (AP) – The US will start shipping key components to Nevada’s desert next year to prepare for underground testing they call “tickling the dragon’s tail”, said scientists charged with ensuring the efficacy of ageing US stockpile of nuclear weapons. Experts at national defence laboratories haven’t been able to physically validate the effectiveness and […]

Christopher Nolan’s latest film joins a long line of movies, books, songs and other artworks that have tried to reckon with the bomb 

In 1954, Robert Oppenheimer was subjected to what was rightly called “an extraordinary American inquisition” under the name of a security hearing. But while extremely harmful professionally and personally, the hearings were not Oppenheimer’s greatest tragedy—it was the success of his leadership in the creation of the weapon.

The Nevada Appeal, the Silver States oldest continuously run newspaper, first published on May 16, 1865.

The president says the risk of a catastrophic nuclear showdown is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Did he say too much?