“Yucca Flat, which spans several areas at the Nevada Test Site, is one of the most bombed-out places on Earth,” writes Jacobsen. “In this photo taken during the winter months from a helicopter above Area 10, the Sedan Crater can be seen in the forefront. A 104-kiloton bomb was buried at a depth of 635 feet, and its detonation produced a crater 1,280 feet wide and a 320 feet deep, moving 12 million tons of radioactive dirt in an instant and creating a hole that can be seen from space.”
