7 Nuclear Test Sites You Can Visit Today

(via Atlas Obscura) The atomic age began on July 16, 1945, when the Manhattan Project detonated its first successful nuclear weapon test in the New Mexico desert. Less than a month later, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From then up until 1996, over 2,000 nuclear test explosions have been detonated o around the world—to prepare for the possibility of nuclear war.  Atlas Obscura lists seven nuclear test sites that you can still visit today, vestiges of this sobering turning point in the evolution of warfare.