Atomic tourism
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Atomic tourism is a relatively new style of tourism in which the tourists travel to significant sites in atomic history. These sites are typically those involved with either atomic explosions or the vehicles (planes, missiles and rockets) that transport them.
[edit] Atomic museums
- Tinian Airfield, launch site for atomic bombing missions on Japan during World War II
- Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona, public underground missile museum
- Nike Missile Site SF-88L, near San Francisco, CA, fully restored Nike missile complex
- Los Alamos County Historical Museum, Los Alamos, NM, items from the Manhattan Project
- Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM, history of the Manhattan Project
- National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque, NM, many missiles and rockets. This used to be the National Atomic Museum at Kirtland AFB and it has a B52 on exhibit.
- National Museum of the United States Air Force, The Nagasaki airplane as well as many nuclear missiles
- Oak Ridge Graphite Reactor, first to make Plutonium
- American Museum of Science and Energy, bomb casings on display
- Greenbrier Bunker, underground bunker for Congress
- Savannah River Site, site where Plutonium 239 and Tritium were made
- Experimental Breeder Reactor I, engines for atomic powered airplanes
- National Air and Space Museum, Enola Gay, Washington DC, The Hiroshima airplane
- White Sands Missile Range, Central New Mexico, missiles on display
- Pacific Proving Grounds, South Pacific, site of many atomic and nuclear tests from 1948-1963
- Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, NV
[edit] Explosion sites
- Trinity Site, Alamogordo, NM, site of 1st atomic bomb explosion July 16, 1945
- Nevada Test Site, Nye County, NV, Land of a Thousand Nuclear Tests
- Bikini Atoll, South Pacific, many atomic sites now available by SCUBA
- Project GASBUGGY, Carson National Forest, Rio Arriba County, NM, Atoms for Peace
- Project GNOME, Carlsbad, NM, underground atomic test site
- Hiroshima, Japan, first wartime use of an atomic bomb
- Nagasaki, Japan, last wartime use of an atomic bomb
