INL is home to cultural resources that represent 13,500 years of human use. Learn more about what these resources are and what they can tell us about some of the earliest inhabitants of North America.
INL’s desert Site sits on land that during World War II was home to the Arco Naval Proving Ground where gun barrels from naval battleships were test fired before being deployed for use in combat. Learn about the region’s history during the war before the founding of the National Reactor Testing Station in 1949.