Message posted by lone wolf on November 26, 2003 at 17:32:59 PST:

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Nevada Test Site and Mount Charleston would be studied
for national historic landmark status under a measure approved by the U.S.
Senate.

Sens. John Ensign, R-Nev., and Harry Reid, D-Nev., sponsored the measure to
spend $300,000 on a three-year study of potential historic locations,
including the nation's nuclear proving ground and a mountain peak northwest
of Las Vegas where a plane crash remained secret for 40 years.

Fourteen people died in the 1955 crash of a C-54 transport plane that
researchers believe was carrying CIA agents and spy plane designers to a
secret military installation at Area 51, near Groom Lake.

The House has yet to take action on a similar bill.

Five of the more than 2,300 national historic landmarks identified for the
study relate to the Cold War. Other sites include the North American
Aerospace Defense Command center at Cheyenne Mountain, Colo., and former
nuclear missile silos in the Midwest.

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