LAMAR COUNTY, MS (WLOX) – The state of Mississippi has taken ownership of a 1500 acre tract in Lamar County, where the federal government once conducted nuclear tests. The Tatum Salt Dome was ...

BAXTERVILLE, Miss. (WDAM) - There’s no signpost marking Mississippi’s only nuclear test site. There’s no visitor center, either — just timberland, wildlife … and a radioactive legacy ...

The test was named Project Salmon and its first goal was to detonate a nuclear bomb 2,700 feet underground in the salt dome. Early in the morning on Oct. 22, 1964, 400 residents were evacuated ...

The first goal was to detonate a nuclear bomb 2,700 feet underground in the salt dome, the Atomic Heritage Foundation said. About 400 residents were evacuated from a 5-mile radius of the testing ...

HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) - At 10 a.m. on October 22, 1964, the United States government detonated a nuclear device 2,700 feet below Salmon Nuclear Test Site in Lamar County.

At 10 a.m. on Oct. 22, 1964, a five-kiloton nuclear device was detonated in Lamar County, Mississippi. The previous year, as a response to rising public anxiety over the potential fallout of ...