Las Vegas Sun

April 19, 2024

Nevada Test Site

Sat, May 17, 2008 (2 a.m.)

Nearly every month, two tour buses rumble past a ghost town of blown-out houses and concrete bomb shelters, throwing up a cloud of dust. Sixty-five miles north of Las Vegas, the free tours, booked to capacity months in advance, roll through “the most nuked parcel of ground on Earth.”

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