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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

In the southern part of Nevada, roughly 83 miles north, northwest of Las Vegas sits an old, dried up salt-flat lake surrounded by mountains.

It’s desolate out there..It’s hot, dry, and a long ways from pretty much everything and a fair distance from the little town of Rachel.

Back around 1864, lead and silver were discovered in that area, and the mining of it continued until about 1918. After WWII, with new equipment and extraction methods, the mining resumed, but that wasn’t the only thing going on out there in the middle of nowhere.

In 1942, the Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field was created with a pair of 5,000  foot salt-flat runways because the military figured it would be as good a spot as anywhere where new planes could be flown, tested, and possibly crashed without having to worry much about hitting populated places. It was also fairly close to where other military testing was happening, like bombing run practices, and soon, atomic testing would take place.

The original base operated off of an area that measured about 6 by 10 miles on what was called…

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