Interactive Map Reveals Craters Blasted Into The Nevada Desert During Decades Of Nuclear Weapons Tests

Nuclear fallout: The Nevada test site is pockmarked with craters that show where explosions took place

America's Nuclear Moonscape: Interactive Map Reveals Craters Blasted Into The Nevada Desert During Decades Of Nuclear Weapons Tests -- Daily Mail

It looks like the surface of the Moon but this pock-marked landscape is actually the result of decades of nuclear weapons testing in the Nevada desert.

As the Second World War ended and the Cold War began, the U.S. military detonated hundreds of devices in its desert test site, with the last explosions taking place in 1992.

When testing first began in the 1950s, few residents living near the site were concerned by the rumble of explosions or mushroom-shaped clouds on the horizon. But fears about radiation poisoning, and peace protests in later decades, put pressure on the military to end the tests.

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WNU Editor: On the one hand this is super cool to look at .... and on the other hand one cannot help but recoil with horror at all the environmental damage that has been done.

The link to America's Nuclear Moonscape map site is here.