Today in 1967, 56 years ago: in the Nevada atomic test area (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 80:30 (local time), the United States detonates its 20 kiloton Door Mist atomic bomb 436 m underground. It is the 518th of 1129 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.

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