File:NTS - Reflector Tower.jpg

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English: Nevada Test Site - Area 6
Radar retroreflector tower located in the center of Yucca Flat dry lake bed. Used as a radar target by maneuvering aircraft during inert contact fusing bomb drops at Yucca Flat. Sandia National Laboratories conducted the tests on the lake bed from 1954 to 1956.
Date Unknown date
Source Nevada Test Site Guide, DOE/NV-715
Author Federal Government of the United States

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