Image: Frenchman Flat
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Description: Frenchman Lake, on Frenchman Flat, with its "doom town" of buildings, roads and railroad bridges. The first nuclear bomb tests at Area 5 in the Nevada Test Site were conducted here. So were many more, mostly in the early 1950s. Here is a video of Doom Town being blown up. On the far side is the Desert National Wildlife Range. A total of 19 tests were done in Area 5. Most were within the area shown.
Title: Frenchman Flat
Credit: 2010_08_06_rno-phx-bos_073 Uploaded by PDTillman
Author: Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, USA
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