In the 1950s, the U.S. government ordered thousands of soldiers into the Nevada desert with no protection, only to detonate live nuclear bombs a few miles away. They called it Operation Desert ...

In 1957, Joel Healy witnessed one of the largest nuclear tests ever conducted on U.S. soil. Healy was in the U.S. Army, stationed in the Nevada desert north of Las Vegas at Camp Desert Rock. He ...

Color footage of atomic bomb tests with active duty military personnel at Camp Desert Rock, Nevada Test Site, Nevada. Shows soldiers in foxholes as nuclear detonation occurs nearby.