As they had once touted their city as the "Gateway to the Boulder Dam," Las Vegans began promoting their hometown as "Atomic City." A Vegas Attraction Days after the first bomb was detonated on ...

Las Vegas became "Atomic City ... the United States of America has conducted 42 test explosions. Atomic bombs today are more than 25 times as powerful as the weapons with which the atomic age ...

The NNSA has recently given the public a rare glimpse into one of the secret nuclear labs where America used to test its ...

Miss Atomic Bomb to Ali: Las Vegas’s 75 greatest photos presented Forgive the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for hoarding. They’ve socked away our city’s history snapshots.

United Air Lines Flight 736, a DC-7 passenger plane carrying 47 people, had collided with an Air Force F-100F fighter jet ...

The site, which was once the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range, was decided on for nuclear testing by the Atomic Energy Commission ... 10 times the size of the bomb that detonated over Hiroshima ...

Ranking the Las Vegas icons. And where you can find them.Many personalities have helped shape the image of Las Vegas during its brief history. These are the people I believe have put ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5 ... attendees could see artifacts such as a decommissioned Mark III “Fatman” atomic bomb casing, a 9-megaton B-53 thermonuclear device and radioactive trinitite.