Intense Footage of Fake Towns Used for 1950s Nuclear Tests

Smithsonian Channel · 3M views · 2017 · 3:04

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Reveals the construction of fake towns to simulate the effects of nuclear explosions on civilian areas during 1950s tests.

Linked by 5 independent sites, 3 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including mentalfloss.com, listverse.com, trendymen.ru, nautilus.org, lahoradelmiedo.com.