23 49 edt 25 may 2012 updated. By daily mail reporter. Amazing never before seen pictures show aftermath of nuclear test in specially built ghost town just like in indiana jones.
Code named apple ii the test was part of operation teapot and took place at yucca flats on the nevada proving grounds now the nevada national security site. This staged town was the target of a nuclear test in 1955. It s comprised of houses once populated by mannequins and stocked with packaged goods.
The nevada national security site n2s2 or nnss known as the nevada test site nts until august 23 2010 is a united states department of energy doe reservation located in southeastern nye county nevada about 65 miles 105 km northwest of the city of las vegas formerly known as the nevada proving grounds the site was established on january 11 1951 for the testing of nuclear devices. With blocks of fake buildings and streets it s a truman. A 32 acre site in ann arbor this simulated small town was created to help test driverless cars and the vehicle technology of the future.
The most disturbing element of the fake town was its citizens. In 1955 a series of 14 nuclear test explosions known as operation teapot were set off in the nevada desert at yucca flat. Burned up except for face this mannequin was 7 000 feet one and a quarter miles from blast.
Scorched male mannequin in suit of dark fabric indicates a human would be burned but alive. Some rare and eerie photos of a replica town involved in an atomic bomb test in may 1955 including mannequins used to demonstrate the effects on people. The tower stood 1 500 feet above ground level so that when the colossal explosion occurred the fireball blast wouldn t effect or damage the monitoring equipment.
In the 1950s nuclear testing began at the nevada national security site as technicians mounted the apple 2 bomb on top of a detonation tower. Jones barely escaped by hiding in a lead lined king cool refrigerator in one of doom town s. The town was destroyed when a nuclear bomb was detonated nearby.
The town populated by mannequins used to test the effects of nuclear weapons on people.
Fake town nuclear test site. Intense footage of fake towns used for 1950s nuclear tests to test the impact of an atomic blast on populated areas technicians built entire fake towns with houses shops and even mannequin. Doom town was a fake town built on a nuclear test site in nevada. In 1957 indiana jones entered the town after escaping soviet agents at hangar 51.
In 1957 indiana jones entered the town after escaping soviet agents at hangar 51. Doom town was a fake town built on a nuclear test site in nevada. Intense footage of fake towns used for 1950s nuclear tests to test the impact of an atomic blast on populated areas technicians built entire fake towns with houses shops and even mannequin.
