10 things you probably didn't know about Las Vegas...!!
Y es yes, yadda yadda. Las Vegas . Sin City. Casinos and hotels and slightly past-it pop acts running through the hits one more time on some enormous stage. What is there possibly left to learn about this noisy hotspot in the sand? Well, you may be surprised… 1. Its first tourists LOVED atomic bombs Even for Las Vegas, the idea of using atomic explosions as reasons for merriment seems a touch extreme. And yet, that is exactly what used to happen in Nevada’s party town in the mid-Fifties. At a time when nuclear detonations were a regular event at the Nevada Test Site, some 65 miles north-west of the city, guests would gather at casinos such as Binion’s Horseshoe and the Desert Inn to watch mushroom clouds rise. Beauty pageants – to find “Miss Atomic Bomb” – were held in the same decade, as a way of celebrating America’s position at the forefront of mass-death technology. What terribly jolly japes. (Indie-rock band The Killers, who hail from Las Vegas, referenced this in
