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| Having a Blast in Vegas -- A visit to the Nevada Test Site Museum |
| 2005-04-12 |
| by Michael Ybarra, Wall Street Journal EFL. Go read the whole thing; it's "da bomb." The 8,000-square-foot museum, which opened in March, is the fruit of a decade of work by the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation. The ticket booth resembles the site's guard station; the movie theater looks like a bunker. "Countdown to next show," flashes an ominous red clock. A roar and a blast of air greet visitors in the concrete theater. . . . "The government, and most residents of the other forty-nine states, have always considered Nevada a fitting place to do unpleasant things," Gerard J. DeGroot observes in his new book, "The Bomb." "There are few other places in the United States where a 50-kiloton bomb has little noticeable effect on the landscape. Nevada is proof that man's bomb is big, but God's earth is bigger." . . . |
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