He would fill the cores of bombs with explosives, and part of his job was to go to the aboveground nuclear tests in Nevada. |
Extraction began in 1864 in California and Nevada, after commercially workable deposits were found in alkaline desert marshes. |
The Sierra Nevada casts a rain shadow over the region to the east of that mountain range. |
The thin mantle of soil and quartzitic gravel is vegetated with ubiquitous sagebrush typical of the high desert in northeastern Nevada. |
The winding 150 mile course from Barstow, California to Primm, Nevada knocked out vehicle after vehicle. |
In the heart of the Nevada desert, it is a playground for adults where the imagination runs riot. |