National Atomic Testing Museum, Nevada

The official museum about the atomic testing program, largely conducted at the Nevada Test Site, sixty miles north of Las Vegas, is just a short distance from the Strip in Las Vegas. The museum is full of interesting displays, and was established with the support of the primary contractors at the site, Bechtel, EG&G, and Wackenhut, as well as the DOE, and the national labs, Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos. It is an affiliate museum of the Smithsonian, and was built on the grounds of the Desert Research Institute, a state laboratory, based in Reno, which does scientific work at the Nevada Test Site. The museum opened in 2005, and Bill Johnson, the primary DRI archeologist for the Nevada Test Site, served as the museums founding director for many years.

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