the small town at the entrance of the Test Site; mannequins posed in mock fallout shelters; and even a look at the Nevada Test Site employees' 1961 Christmas party. "People on the tours ask what ...

No, wait – mannequins. Test dummies ... In all, 928 blasts were triggered over, at and above the Nevada Test Site. Just 65 miles north of the Strip, it’s the most nuclear bombed site in ...

“A mannequin mother died horribly in her one ... in Survival City at the Nevada Test Site near Yucca Flat, Nev., May 6, 1955. In background is the wreckage of a house on Doomsday Drive ...

Another 99 above-ground nuclear tests followed at the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of ... the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Mannequins dressed in 1950s attire were posed in family settings ...

Mannequins dressed to the nines ... Bechtel Nevada, the company that manages Nevada Test Site operations, funds the tours, which begin at the Energy Department's Nevada Operations Office Public ...

Deep inside the Nevada Test Site, in a moonscape of craters and radioactive ... furniture and J.C. Penney mannequins used to test the effects of nuclear bombs on ordinary communities.

In the 1950s, casinos threw “dawn parties,” where gamblers caroused until a flash signaled the explosion of an atomic bomb at the Nevada Test Site. Tourism boosters promoted the Atomic ...

quicklist:2title: Civil Defensemedia: 19962523text: During the Cold War, the Nevada Test Site was used to test ... of distances from ground zero. Mannequins were used in lieu of people.

Mock home destroyed by Annie (Operation Upshot-Knothole), 1953(National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site ... mannequins. In a famous series of images published widely following the test ...

A former Nevada Test Site official who for a time was one of three test controllers — people responsible for ensuring the safe execution of nuclear testing — died last week at 89. John D.

LAS VEGAS – The Nevada Test Site, epicenter of the nuclear age for decades, now has a new name to reflect the diversity of activities at the desert expanse north of Las Vegas. National Nuclear ...