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Virtual nukes - when is a test not a test?
Mesler, Bill | June 15, 1998 issue

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The article gives information about "Stagecoach." Stagecoach was a U.S. test conducted on March 25 by a team of nuclear weapons researchers from Los Alamos Laboratory and carried out at the Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site, now managed jointly by Bechtel Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Johnson Controls Inc. According to the D.O.E., Stagecoach was not a nuclear test in the conventional sense. Unlike the experiment in India, no nuclear chain reaction was maintained and no full explosion occurred. It was simply a "subcritical" nuclear test, the first of four such trials that will be held this fiscal year to monitor the "safety and reliability" of aging plutonium.

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UNITED States. Dept. of Energy; NUCLEAR weapons -- Nevada -- Testing; PLUTONIUM; NEVADA Test Site (Nev.); NEVADA; UNITED States
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