Nevada Test Site getting new life in security

ReviewJournal.com : Managers of the Nevada Test Site are ready to write a new chapter in the history of the nation’s nuclear weapons proving grounds.They hope the Rhode Island-size test site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, will become home this fall to a new National Center for Nuclear Security, where experts on treaty verification, counterterrorism and nonproliferation will huddle to chart the nation’s course for achieving national goals.The center “will probably be the biggest thing at the site in many decades,” said Stephen M. Younger, president of National Security Technologies, NSTec, the managing and operating contractor at the Nevada Test Site.Nevada Site Office Manager Stephen Mellington said the center will play a pivotal role in supporting arms reduction treaties and “other nonproliferation activities we’re going to be doing with the intelligence communities.”