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  2. Atomic City is a city in Bingham County, Idaho, United States. The population was 41 at the 2020 census, up from 29 in 2010.

  3. Mar 10, 2016 · While the Mountain West boomtown spent the late 1940s thriving on the power generated at the nearby nuclear complex, by the mid-1950s, a string of nuclear meltdowns had sent the town's...

  4. Feb 29, 2016 · Atomic City, Idaho: located at the edge of an 890-square mile nuclear complex, Atomic City was once called Midway–until the world’s first electricity-generating nuclear power plant,...

  5. Nov 1, 2016 · Los Alamos is a small town in New Mexico that was built as a secret city to develop the atomic bomb during the second world war. Today, it is a wealthy and privileged enclave surrounded by some of the poorest counties in the state, with a legacy of nuclear contamination and inequality.

  6. Jan 21, 2023 · Atomic City is a living ghost town near the Idaho National Laboratory, where the country's first fatal nuclear explosion took place in 1961. Learn about the town's history, the nuclear accidents, and the book Wilderness to Wasteland that captures its haunting remnants.

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Atomic_CityAtomic City - Wikipedia

    Places. Atomic City, Idaho, a city in Bingham County, Idaho. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a city in Anderson and Roane Counties, Tennessee. A nickname for Las Vegas earned in the 1950s when it was the site of above-ground nuclear weapons testing.