The first license plate to remember Nevada’s history as the host of the US’s nuclear testing grounds drew criticism for featuring a mushroom cloud (see the plate on the right, above). Now it appears folks are at it again, this time with a plate that depicts the site’s area and includes the classic illustration of [...]

Posted December 29, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: atomic, atomic testing, atomic testing museum, atomic tests, heritage, history, license plate, license plates, museum, nevada test site, nuclear, nuclear test site, nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons, test site. Be the first one.

Via Defense Tech: Slate did a series last week titled A Nuclear Family Vacation that visited the Nevada Test Site; Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Labs; and Trinity. Extra: a slideshow accompanies the text and the authors interviewed on NPR’s Day to Day.
Related: previous nuclear stories at MaisonBisson.

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Posted July 24, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Politics & Controversy, Travel. Tags: albuquerque, defensetech, lawrence livermore, los alamos, national lab, national labs, nevada test site, nuclear, nuclear family, sandia. Be the first one.

We don’t need to hack Google Maps anymore. Now that Google has released a public maps API, we can make more reliable map-dependent apps (which will now have better browser compatibility, thank you). Within a few minutes of signing up for a maps API key I had put together the following of the Nevada Test [...]

Posted July 1, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: api, google maps, google maps api, map api, mapping, maps api, nevada test site, yahoo, yahoo maps. 96 Comments.