In the 1950s and early 60s, Nevadans welcomed the atomic testing once they saw the new flux of people moving to the valley – not to mention a new wave of tourists who came to see the blasts
The National Atomic Testing Museum has just completed an exchange between participants and historians who have studied the testing of nuclear weapons on both sides of the Cold War. Nevada was the United States' test site and Kazakhstan was the test site for the Soviet Union.