Entering the museum entails “clearing security”, or in this case, obtaining a ticket to see the exhibits. The ticket office is a replica of the old security station at the test site’s entrance.
The display provides background and explains how the land was used prior to its designation as America’s continental nuclear testing grounds by President Harry Truman on Dec. 18, 1950.
A bright red sign displays the U.S. Department of Energy’s prior identity as the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Interactive displays allow access to film strips, still images, and records of all U.S.
atmospheric tests. Including Pacific and Atlantic activities. “Ground Zero Theater” features film footage of detonations.
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The area provides a primer on the history of the development of atomic weapons and places related activities in the context of world views and events of the period.
Enter a simulation of a tunnel bored to place a device deep underground as an alternative to atmospheric testing. The area includes a model of the test site’s still existent control room for
nuclear testing field activities, “Control Point One”.
Further into the underground testing area, time lines detail world views and events from the 1960’s to the 1990’s to continue to place the program in the context of the times.
The test site’s extensive environmental manage-ment and monitoring programs - that have made it one of the most studied sites in the world - are displayed here. Interactive stations explain the fundamentals of radiation monitoring, seismology, and geology.
National defense, alternative energy, advanced physics, and desert ecology are a few of the current, on-going non-nuclear testing activities described here to show the lasting value of the
test site’s exceptional technological infra-structure.
