Today in 1962, 62 years ago: in an artificial well, 258 meters underground, in the U3ax area of the Nevada Atomic Test Site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 11:33 (local time) the United States detonates its 8 kiloton Paca atomic bomb. It is the 234thof 1132 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
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