Mercury (Nevada)

Mercury is a settlement in Nevada, United States northwest of Las Vegas.

In Mercury are numerous workplaces and residential quarters for employees of the Nevada Test Site. The access is closed to the public ( control gate ). The exit of Mercury at U.S. 95 and the entrance to the Nevada Test Site is presented annually on special occasions ( such as " Mothers Day " ) of protesters blocked the recruitment of nuclear tests and the return of the Department of Energy (DoE ) confiscated land to the Western Shoshone Indians demand.

In 1957, in the vicinity of Mercury at 36 ° 40 'north latitude and 115 ° 59'W missiles Asp started to investigate the explosion clouds of the atomic bombs surgery Plumbbob.