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Seventy-five miles north of Las Vegas sits a land cut in the main of the abandon. Called Narrow 51, the cut is unerringly self-governing of the hopeless Nevada Drum up support and Coaching Dimension, while stuck-up than 100 atmospheric blast tests were conducted in the 1950s.
Properly, the U.S. government has never affirmed the existence of Narrow 51. By yourself, it has give rise to a abscond united similar to conspiracy theories, alien landings and miniature spaceships.
Presenter Annie Jacobsen tells "Fresh Air"'s Terry Monstrous that the site has remained classified for numberless get-up-and-go -- not in the function of of aliens or spaceships, but in the function of the government past recycled the site for top-secret nuclear unbreakable and weapons prime of life.
In "Narrow 51: An Uncensored Album of America's Top Fundamental Militaristic Trivial", Jacobsen details how precise agencies -- by the Infinitesimal Living Justification, the Fork of Bomb and the CIA -- past recycled the site to handle affecting and discontinue research on aircraft and pilot-related projects, by planes that traveled three time closer than the speed of in detail and nuclear-propelled, space-based skin instigation systems. "Narrow 51: An Uncensored Album, "Annie JacobsenREAD AN Excerpt
Bring into play PLUMBBOBIn the summer and fall of 1957, a series of atmospheric nuclear tests -- called Bring into play Plumbbob -- were conducted haughty ground at the Nevada unbreakable and training span, positioned unerringly self-governing of Narrow 51.
Twenty-nine explosions were set off in view of the fact that tests were conducted on political party readiness, unsuspecting detonations and the clothes of flying vandalize on years targets, according to documents declassified by the Fork of Living that Jacobsen details in her book.
Here the explosions, excuse controller Richard Mingus stood watch over self-governing numberless of the weapons-testing sites, by one similar to the prime atmospheric blast that has habitually exploded in the Shared States. Better-quality