Hawthorne Bomb Plot[2] is a Formerly Used Defense Site that had a Strategic Air Command (SAC) AUTOTRACK radar station during the Cold War.

Operations began at a temporary RBS train site[specify] for RBS Express #2 was at the Hawthorne area in December 1961,[3] and the 11th Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron[4] subsequently established the fixed military installation for Radar Bomb Scoring in Babbitt, Nevada, the military housing community near the local Navy/Army[specify] depot.

The unit was reassigned to 1CEVG's RBS Division in 1966 and tracked training sorties at the Nellis Air Force Range (e.g., during the Vietnam War)[5] and scored SAC bombers.

Hawthorne's Oil Burner route ("OB-10 Hawthorne") for SAC low-level bomber flights extended from a "point west of Elko, Nevada, running southwest to Mina, Nevada" at flight level "FL130-140"[6] (the Tonopah "SAC Targets 1 and 2"[7] were at South Antelope Lake.

)[8] The USAF detachment publicized their 1985 move to the Havre Radar Bomb Scoring Site,[9] but the Hawthorne radar station was still used by NAS Fallon in 1993, and the Whiskey Flats RV park was established in the general location of the former radar station[10] in 2004.