Nuclear Tourism: When atomic tests were a tourist attraction in Las Vegas, 1950s

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Las Vegas is known as the city of lights and, at one time, that light was the glow of an atomic detonation in the Nevada desert. Starting in 1951, the US Army began testing nuclear ordinances just 65 miles from the Sin City. At night, the glow of the bombs lit up the sky, and […]