Question of the Day - 07 January 2026

Currently, tours of the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) are paused until March at the earliest. This is due to the uncertainty of funding and the ongoing evaluations of the federal budget by the administration. 

Our understanding is that the NNSS will re-evaluate the tour program once the budget situation becomes a little clearer and the Security Site can better assess its financial position vis-a-vis its operational needs. 

Assuming the tours resume, securing a spot is a matter of impeccable timing. You have to register and sign up for a space far far far in advance. When they run, the tours take place once a month and there’s enormous interest in them, so they fill up fast fast fast. In the past, the NNSS released dates in October or November for the 12 tours in the following calendar year. Only by monitoring the tour site on a daily basis would you know when the spots on the buses were released. If you missed it, you were out of luck. You could put your name on a cancellation list, but you’d have to be prepared to fly in at short notice. 

Now, with the tours paused for at least the next couple of months, it's anyone's guess when or even if they'll open up again.