5. Dugway Proving Ground, U.S. Just two months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Dugway Proving Ground opened in Utah, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Founded upon 127,000 acres, the site has grown to encompass 800,000 acres roughly the size of Rhode Island. Dugway began as a testing site for biological and chemical weapons, as […]
#5.N1 dispatch blast, 3 July 1969 One of the four N1 rockets that the Soviets expected to send to the moon blasted on the platform. The impact of the 1,496,000 lbs (678,574 kg) of fluid oxygen and lamp fuel discharged around 29 TJ vitality, practically identical to the Hiroshima impact. This was the biggest non-atomic […]
