Pentagon plans gigantic explosion at Nevada site
Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:41 PM ET
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to detonate 700 tons of conventional high explosives in Nevada in a June 2 test designed to gauge the effectiveness of weapons against deeply buried targets, officials said on Thursday.
"I don’t want to sound glib here, but it’s the first time in Nevada that you’ll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons," (...)