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COLD WAR TOURISM, WESTERN STYLE
Wiener, Jon | October 6, 1997 issue

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The article focuses on the author's bus tour at the Nevada Test Site (N.T.S.), where the United States tested nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992, leaves from the Department of Energy Building, behind the Circus Circus casino in Las Vegas. The day the author went the bus was full. Two kinds of people were on the bus: those taking notes, and the rest. The rest were mostly retired sunbirds and vacationing families. Those taking notes were mostly young men interested in "Area 51," widely known among "X-Files" types as the secret C.I.A. airstrip adjacent to The test site. The U.F.O. folks think the C.I.A. uses Area 51 to make contact with aliens.

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NEVADA Test Site (Nev.); COLD War; TOURISM; NUCLEAR weapons -- Nevada -- Testing; RUNWAYS (Aeronautics); NEVADA; UNITED States
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