Nevada’s Nuclear Legacy and My Family’s Atomic Bonds

The shuttle bus lurches to the right as we take a sharp turn off of Highway 95. Ahead of us is the badging office and the entry gates to the Nevada National Security Site (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">NNSS</a>) in Mercury, Nevada. It was once known as the Nevada Test Site and before that it was called the Nevada Proving Grounds. Never heard of it? You might actually know a little something about this place. You see, there is this one little piece of land adjacent to the NNSS facility that gets a lot of attention. It’s called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Area 51</a>. That infamous spot is only one small part of this enormous, desolate facility in the Nevada desert that measures roughly the size of the state of Rhode Island. <a href="https://medium.com/digital-global-traveler/nevadas-nuclear-legacy-and-my-family-s-atomic-bonds-d14cc362c4bc">Click Here</a>