[Shank]

Nuclear weapons test? The latest test treaty just expired.

Edit: There are two TFRs, one in El Paso and one right next to it in the mountains: https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_6_2234

[Stevvo]

I think not; it's not somewhere you can conduct a nuclear test without starting a war with Mexico. However it is interesting to look at the TFR area in Google maps; it looks just like a nuclear test site, but the craters are natural volcanoes.

[IsTom]

Well, somebody has suggested nuking a tornado before. Why not a vulcano?

[lazide]

Mexico isn’t going to start a war with the US. it would last a week at most, and they’d end up glowing even more than if the us ‘downwinded’ them all year.

[K0balt]

Probably just closing the airspace for the space alien emissary.

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[massysett]

Wouldn’t the Nevada Test Site be much better for this? Huge, government controlled, no major airports or cities, and moreover, already used for this sort of thing.

[dboreham]

No because there's no enemy there to shoot at.

[baubino]

This was my thought as well given the length of time of the closure.

[karlkloss]

3.6 roentgen you say?