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Atomic Liquors, since 1952.

Five Landmarks of Atomic Nevada

Echoes of the hundreds of nuclear tests conducted in Nevada during the atomic age.

Sponsored by Travel Nevada

A shot of Fukushima from 2011.

Found: Melted Uranium Rods, Lost at Fukushima

Six years after the disaster, Tepco may have found its lost nuclear debris.

Sarah Laskow January 31, 2017

In Oscar Newman's sci-fi fantasy, New York City has a nuclear metropolis deep underground.

One Architect's Spectacular Vision for a Spherical Subterranean City

New Yorkers would weather nuclear attack in an underground metropolis.

Lauren Young January 16, 2017

Strategic Air Command headquarters in the 1960s.

In the 1960s, Telegraph Poles Were Equipped With Nuclear Bomb Alarms

They were simple-looking white canisters.

Sarah Laskow January 11, 2017

Nuclear Shelter 10-Z

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

Atomic Liquors, since 1952

Las Vegas, Nevada

Atomic Liquors

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The New Safe Confinement dome, almost ready in October 2016.

Chernobyl’s Rogue Reactor Finally Gets a Better Dome

The massive structure has been slowly moving across the landscape for weeks.

Cara Giaimo November 28, 2016

Permanently Closed

Yenching Palace in Cleveland Park, Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Yenching Palace

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

Ukrainian National Chornobyl Museum

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

A nuclear test at Bikini Atoll. Waste from nuclear weapons development lasts for millions of years.

1990s Doomsday Planners Worried About Feminists Breaching Nuclear Waste Sites

They also feared treasure hunters and the secession of New Mexico.

Cara Giaimo November 8, 2016

Front face of the B Reactor. Taken 10/27/2022 on public tour.

Richland, Washington

B Reactor

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Watch a Cold War Era Video That Advises You How to Survive a Nuclear Attack

You are the target.

Mariana Zapata September 29, 2016

Here’s What an Underground Nuclear Test Actually Looks Like

For decades, they were relatively common.

Sarah Laskow September 9, 2016

Orlando Towers

Soweto, South Africa

Orlando Towers

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

The dome is visible from the air--a perfect circle concealing something darker.

7 Nuclear Test Sites You Can Visit Today

Where to see the vestiges of nuclear weapons tests around the world.

Meg Neal September 3, 2016

Constructing the nuclear reactor.

Camp Century (Project Iceworm)

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

In 1983, Staten Island Narrowly Escaped Becoming a Nuclear Stronghold

The remains of the decommissioned Stapleton naval base are a reminder of Cold War-era nuclear anxiety.

Lauren Young August 25, 2016

Prypiat, Ukraine

Abandoned City of Prypiat

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.