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Area 19 is one of a number of nuclear test areas within the Pahute Mesa section of the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Pahute Mesa is one of four major nuclear test regions within the (NTS) and it encompasses Area 19 and Area 20.

Both Area 19 and Area 20 were added to the NTS because of the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which ended atmospheric nuclear testing. Pahute Mesa was seen as an ideal area to practice underground testing because deeper shafts could be drilled in the rocky mesa.^[2]

Area 19 was the site of 36 tests, including high yield ones greater than one megaton in size. Tests were conducted at Area 19 from 1966 to 1992.

Test operations

Chartreuse and Halfbeak, Operation Flintlock
Scotch, Operation Latchkey
Stinger, Scroll and Rickey, Operation Crosstie
Sled, Operation Bowline
Almendro, Operation Toggle
Mast and Camembert, Operation Bedrock
Inlet, Muenster, Estuary and Pool, Operation Anvil
Backbeach, Fondutta and Panir, Operation Cresset
Emmenthal and Sheepshead, Operation Quicksilver
Serpa and Harzer, Operation Guardian
Hosta and Nebbiolo, Operation Praetorian
Chancellor, Operation Phalanx
Tierra and Towanda, Operation Grenadier
Cybar, Galveston and Labquark, Operation Charioteer
Lockney, Operation Musketeer
Alamo and Kearsarge, Operation Touchstone
Amarillo, Operation Cornerstone
Houston and Bexar, Operation Sculpin
Junction, Operation Julin

References

^ United States Geologic Survey. Nevada Test Site. Geologic Surface Effects of Underground Nuclear Testing. Accessed on April 18, 2009.
^ US Department of Energy. Nevada Operations Office. United States Nuclear Tests: July 1945 through September 1992 (December 2000)

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[1] United States Geologic Survey. Nevada Test Site. Geologic Surface Effects of Underground Nuclear Testing. Accessed on April 18, 2009.

[2] US Department of Energy. Nevada Operations Office. United States Nuclear Tests: July 1945 through September 1992 (December 2000)

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 Area 19 was the site of 36 tests, including high yield ones greater than one megaton in size. Tests were conducted at Area 19 from 1966 to 1992.
-==Controversy==
-Area 19 has been the subject of controversy in the past, as there appears to be a Power line stood in the middle of the area, which caused confusion as there is nothing requiring power in the area. The power line led people to speak of an underground base, in which  alien craft are kept. This speculation has been proven false as a government letter was revealed, saying the power line is no longer used and was from the earlier testing days.
 ==Test operations==