Atomic Museum
Smithsonian-affiliated museum tracing decades of nuclear testing through artifacts, a bomb, and a blast simulator theater.
This guide to the Atomic Museum in Las Vegas centers on the Nevada Test Site detonation code-named Annie, on March 17, 1953, when fifty mannequins dressed by a downtown JCPenney store stood in for a fake American town built sixty-five miles from where you're standing. It follows the L. A. Darling Company that built the dummies, the wool and cotton clothing chosen to test fabric survival, and the families seated at kitchen tables in a place the government called Doom Town. JCPenney later displayed the blasted dummies in its own shop window beside before-and-after photos, turning a mother's kitchen into a public advertisement.
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