Editing Nevada Test Site (section)

===Area 6===
[[File:Device Assembly Facility 2019 extracted.jpg|thumb|Device Assembly Facility in Area&nbsp;6]]
[[File:NTS - Control Point.jpg|thumb|Control Point in Area&nbsp;6]]
Area&nbsp;6 held four nuclear tests for a total of six detonations.<ref name="DOE/NV-209" /> The area features an asphalt runway, that was constructed on top of a dirt landing strip, that had existed since the 1950s. Some buildings, including a hangar, are situated near the runway.<ref>{{cite news |url =http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada/you-know-area-51-just-what-the-world-area-6 |title =You know Area 51, but just what in the world is Area 6? |date =March 5, 2016 |access-date =March 5, 2016 |newspaper =Las Vegas Review-Journal |last =Rogers |first =Keith |archive-date =March 6, 2016 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20160306095516/http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada/you-know-area-51-just-what-the-world-area-6 |url-status =live }}</ref>

The Device Assembly Facility (DAF)<ref name="DOE/NV-715" /> was originally built to consolidate nuclear explosives assembly operations. It now serves as the Criticality Experiments Facility (CEF).

The Control Point<ref name="DOE/NV-715" /> is the communication hub of the site. It was used by controllers to trigger and monitor nuclear test explosions.

In 1982, while a live nuclear bomb was being lowered underground, the base [[Richard Mingus#Under attack|came under attack]] by armed combatants. The combatants turned out to be a security team conducting an improperly scheduled drill. {{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}

More recently, an airstrip in Area 6 is in use by the Departments of Defense and Homeland security to test UAV sensors.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-03-05 |title=You know Area 51, but just what in the world is Area 6? |url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/you-know-area-51-but-just-what-in-the-world-is-area-6/ |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=Las Vegas Review-Journal |language=en-US |archive-date=December 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205060551/https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/you-know-area-51-but-just-what-in-the-world-is-area-6/ |url-status=live }}</ref>