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Rio Blanco County, Colorado

Project Rio Blanco Nuclear Test Site

Plaque commemorating the location of a underground nuclear bomb test in the 1970s.
Mercury, Nevada

Nevada National Security Site

A desert journey through atomic history.
The truth is out there—somewhere.
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The Truth Is Out There at the Dreamland Resort (or Should We Say ‘Area 51?’)

What’s the real story behind America’s most infamous Air Force base?
The Podcast Team July 1, 2025
One of the Icecap shot towers.
List

15 Nuclear History Sites That You Can Visit

From massive craters to secret cities, these places are relics of the Atomic Age.
Jonathan Carey July 7, 2023
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Podcast: National Atomic Testing Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team August 8, 2022
The Human Shadow Etched in Stone.
Hiroshima, Japan

Human Shadow Etched in Stone

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.
Fuller Lodge Art Center
Los Alamos, New Mexico

Fuller Lodge Art Center

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.
A sample of the particles discovered on the beaches of Japan's Motoujina Peninsula.
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Found: Glass Fallout From the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

The particles have covered nearby beaches, unnoticed, for nearly 75 years.
Matthew Taub May 15, 2019
The current tombstone was placed there by Dorothy Bruce and her 1966-67 Jefferson Junior High School students.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

The Prophet of Oak Ridge's Grave

John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.
The B-1 Flat Top at the American Museum of Science and Energy.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

B-1 Flat Top in Oak Ridge

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.
Nye County, Nevada

Project Faultless Site

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Mahatma Gandhi (Fredda Brilliant, 1968).
London, England

Peace Garden at Tavistock Square

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.
Picture of the particle accelerator.
Elmhurst, Illinois

Barbara A. Kieft Accelerator ArtSpace

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.
After the war, some of the prefabricated houses—like this "A" version, photographed in 1957—were transformed with brick and siding.
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How the Manhattan Project's Nuclear Suburb Stayed Secret

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, once home to 75,000, went up fast and under the radar. But it was built to last, too.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 3, 2018
The mural and Shibuya Mark City.
Tokyo, Japan

Myth of Tomorrow

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.
Washington, D.C.

Russian Ambassador's Residence

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.
Warning signs at the entrance of the Woomera test facility.
Woomera, Australia

Woomera Range Complex

Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.
The head of Virgin Mary.
Nagasaki, Japan

Head of the Virgin Mary

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.