Day 120: Visiting the Atomic Test Museum

Today we visited the Atomic Test Museum with my mother.  It was a great museum:

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This 2 foot tall warhead has a 15KT yield, roughly comparable to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima:

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The museum focused on testing, with an extensive section about the US underground test program here in Nevada:

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They had the shell of a B53 bomb on display.  With a 9MT yield, it would flatten all buildings within 10 miles of the drop point:

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Here’s a scale model showing the bomb to size under the deploying bomber:

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We had lunch at a restaurant nearby.  Another great day in Las Vegas!

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