[wordup] The Atomic Tourist

[Adam Shand]

I don't think I approve ... but then what the hell does that matter?

Adam.

From: http://www.atomictourist.com/

The Bureau of Atomic Tourism is dedicated to the promotion of tourist 
locations around the world that have either been the site of atomic 
explosions, display exhibits on the development of atomic devices, or 
contain vehicles that were designed to deliver atomic weapons.
Atomic Museums

     * Tinian Airfield, Launch Site For Atomic Bombing Missions On Japan
     * Titan Missile Museum, The World's Only Public Underground Missile 
Complex
     * Nike Missile Site SF88L, Fully Restored Nike Missile Complex
     * Los Alamos County Historical Museum, Items from the Manhattan Project
     * Bradbury Science Museum, History of the Manhattan Project
     * National Atomic Museum, The Complete History of U.S. Nuclear 
Developments
     * U.S. Air Force Museum, The Nagasaki Airplane Plus Many Nuclear 
Missiles
     * Oak Ridge Graphite Reactor, First to Make Plutonium
     * American Museum of Science & Energy, Bomb Casings on Display
     * Greenbrier Bunker, Underground Bunker for Congress
     * Savannah River Site, See where Plutonium-239 and Tritium were made
     * Experimental Breeder Reactor - I, Engines for Atomic Powered 
Airplanes
     * National Air and Space Museum, "Enola Gay", The Hiroshima Airplane
     * White Sands Missile Range, Missiles on display

Sites of Atomic Explosions

     * Trinity Site, Where the World's First Nuclear Device Was Exploded
     * Nevada Test Site, Land of a Thousand Nuclear Tests
     * Bikini Atoll, Bravo H-Bomb Test Plus Many Others
     * Project GASBUGGY, Atoms For Peace
     * Project GNOME, Underground Atomic Test Site
     * Hiroshima, First Wartime Use of an Atomic Bomb
     * Nagasaki, Last Wartime Use of an Atomic Bomb

Related Links

     * Catalog of Nuclear Explosions
     * Todd's Atomic Homepage
     * The High Energy Weapons Archive

"The effects could well be called unprecedented, magnificent, beautiful, 
stupendous, and terrifying. No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous 
power had ever occurred before. The lighting effects beggared 
description. The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the 
intensity many times that of the midday sun."