Atomic History in Las Vegas

The City of Lights and the Nuclear Age

A Blasting Past Uncovered

WEB Las Vegas is known as the city of lights, and at one time that light was the glow of an atomic detonation. In the 1950s, the American public accepted above-ground nuclear bomb blasts just 65 miles from an American city. Your journey will commence from our very own National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas.