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NF-4587 This "Survival Town" house
NF-4587 This "Survival Town" house, some 7,500 feet from a 29-kiloton nuclear detonation, remained essentially intact. Survival Town consisted of houses, office buildings, fallout shelters, power systems, communications equipment, radio broadcasting station, and trailer homes. The town was built for a Civil Defense exercise and to test not previously subjected to a nuclear blast. The test, called Apple II, was fired on May 5, 1955.

Operation Teapot, number 62, tower shot. 
Keywords: Nevada Test Site, Mercury, Nye County, Nevada NTS
Filename NF4587.jpg
Rating (2 votes) 55555
Keywords Nevada / Test / Site, / Mercury, / Nye / County, / Nevada / NTS
Date 1955
Credits U.S. Department of Energy photograph
Filesize 251 KiB
Date added Jun 18, 2004
Dimensions 1144 x 1438 pixels
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ebanks [Dec 30, 2005 at 07:20 PM]
Operation Teapot, number 62, tower shot.

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