The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) plans to detonate a 700-ton ammonium nitrate and fuel oil explosive on June 2, 2006 at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), a federal facility 65 miles north of Las Vegas. They are calling this test “Divine Strake.” PHOTO The conventional Divine Strake test scheduled for June 2006 is expected to create a large mushroom cloud, an image associated with atmospheric nuclear tests in the 1950s and early 1960s. This image shows the Misers Gold test at White Sands in 1989, a surface blast equivalent of 5 kt TNT. Divine Strake will be nearly 0.6 kt TNT.
Source: LANL
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