Today in 1978, 45 years ago: in the Nevada atomic test area (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:00 (local time), the United States detonates its 8 kiloton Panir atomic bomb 681 m underground. It is the 913th of 1129 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.

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