Nuclear Weapon Tested in Nevada
MERCURY, Nev. — A nuclear weapons test with an explosive force of less than 20,000 tons of TNT was detonated Thursday morning at the Nevada Test Site.
The test was the second announced U.S. test of 1988. The Soviet Union announced its third test of the year on Easter Sunday.
Energy Department spokesman Jim Boyer said the test, code-named Abilene, was detonated in a shaft 800 feet beneath the surface of Yucca Flat, 75 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Boyer said he felt no ground motion at a control point a few miles from ground zero. The test is in the lower range of those conducted at the desert site.
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