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Site for the first atomic blast opens for one day in October – here’s how to go
By Kathleen Bangs, CNN, Updated 12:46 PM EDT, Tue September 12, 2023 It’s one thing standing in line to watch the blockbuster film “Oppenheimer.” It’s another thing entirely queuing up in a remote desert to experience the location of the film’s most pivotal scene. But if you’re a fan of atomic history and can swing…
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First atomic blast in 1951 shook, shaped Vegas and Nevada
There were more than 1,000 atomic tests in Nevada’s desert between 1951 and 1992, including about 100 above ground. “VEGANS ‘ATOM-IZED,’” a Las Vegas Review-Journal headline read the next day, Jan. 28, 1951, in big, bold, all-capital letters across the front page. Coverage featured reports from people awakened by the shockwave, or who witnessed a…
