Salmon Site - Wikipedia
WEBThe Salmon Site is a 1,470-acre (5.9 km 2) tract of land in Lamar County, Mississippi, near Baxterville. The tract is located over a geological formation known as the Tatum Salt Dome and is the location of the only nuclear weapons test detonations known to have been performed in the eastern United States.
In the 1960s, the U.S. Government Set Off a Pair of Nukes Under ...
WEBAug 15, 2018 · And on October 22, 1964, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission was about to blow a gaping cavern in the Earth beneath the pine forests of Lamar County. It was the first of two nuclear tests...
Photos from the day when US government nuked Mississippi, 1964
WEBJun 8, 2022 · Photos from the day when US government nuked Mississippi, 1964. Mississippi’s Tatum Salt Dome in rural Lamar County near Hattiesburg was the site of two nuclear test explosions in the mid-1960s. The Salmon test on Oct. 22, 1964 and the Sterling test on Dec. 3, 1966, were conducted to help determine whether and how nuclear test yields could be ...
Nuclear Testing in Mississippi
WEBScientists concluded that the effects of shockwaves caused by an underground nuclear explosion were stronger in flat areas than in mountains or mountainous regions. [xv] This test gave hope to the U.S. government that seismographs could detect underground nuclear explosions. As a result, officials felt the United States and the USSR could sign ...
Nuclear Blasts in Mississippi - 2008-08
WEBNuclear scientists investigated several potential test sites in Mississippi, but finally selected a site just north of Baxterville in Lamar County, about 28 miles southwest of Hattiesburg. Geologically, the area was called the Tatum Salt Dome, a vast supply of dense salt located about 1,000 feet below ground level.
That time we nuked Mississippi - al.com
WEBMay 25, 2018 · The location of the tests, near the town of Baxterville, became known as the Salmon Site. The project to detonate the first bomb was called Project Salmon, though the overall effort was called ...
Baxterville, Mississippi - Wikipedia
WEBNuclear weapon testing. At 10:00 a.m. on October 22, 1964, the United States Atomic Energy Commission detonated an underground nuclear device inside the Tatum Salt Dome, near Baxterville (Project Salmon). The plan was to detonate a single nuclear bomb about 2,700 feet down within solid salt.
Atomic Alert | Two Mississippi Museums
WEBNuclear testing made its way to Mississippi through the detonation of two nuclear devices outside of Hattiesburg. The first test, Project Salmon, occurred in October 1964 and, roughly two years later, Project Sterling followed, which used a smaller bomb in the cavity left behind by the first blast.
Salmon/Sterling Nuclear Tests Marker - Atlas Obscura
WEBAug 14, 2018 · A roughly chest-high block of granite marks the site of the only atomic bomb tests on U.S. soil east of the Rocky Mountains. The tests, which were part of Project Dribble and dubbed “Salmon...
The U.S. Government Tested Nuclear Weapons in Mississippi? (Baxterville)
WEBMay 21, 2023 · In this episode, I get a tour of a former nuclear weapons test site near Baxterville, Mississippi from a regional forester. The U.S. government conducted two underground nuclear weapons...