Nuke test site may open to tourists

According to an Energy Department spokesperson, the agency is considering opening a "once top-secret" nuclear testing site in Frenchman Flat, Nev., to commercial tours.

According to Derek Scammell, the tours "would introduce visitors from all over the world to [its] surreal moonscape cratered from A-bomb blasts, and littered with relics and artifacts of four decades of atomic experiments." (Phil Garlington, Orange County [CA] Register/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/2.)

Watch GovExec.com and the May issue of Government Executive for an in-depth look at the future of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.