CHINA LAKE NAVAL AIR WEAPONS STATION (NAWS) is located in a mineral-rich corner of the Mojave Desert, 150 miles southwest of Area 51. Its mission is RDA—the Research, Development, and Acquisition of weapons. In 1944, ten soldiers and five civilians died in a mine adjacent to the base. What they were doing there remains classified. To secure the site, the entrance was plugged with a thousand tons of cement, and the plug itself buried. Over time, Blacksmith Mine was forgotten. Until three junior high students found a way in….