Nevada Testing Tourism

Nevada always finds a way to make a tourist attraction out of something. The testing site in Nevada is relatively close to Las Vegas somewhere about 75 miles from the strip. The most hilarious is of course Miss Atomic Bomb. The casinos would advertise day trips out to bleachers near the north edge of the city to watch the explosions, sometimes they would be given badges which showed radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_badge_dosimeter. Most of the time they didn't.