Vegas Warned on Nuclear Test
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS —
A major nuclear weapons test with a yield of up to 150,000 tons of TNT will be detonated Wednesday deep beneath the Nevada desert, the Department of Energy said today.
A department spokesman said managers of high-rise buildings in Las Vegas are being warned not to have workers in precarious positions at the time of the 8 a.m. blast because of possible swaying from ground motion. The test will be detonated 1,960 feet beneath the surface of Pahute Mesa at the Nevada Test Site, about 106 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
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