Nuke Las Vegas

I love this image. 1951, Las Vegas with all the old-style casinos and in the background an atom bomb test. Yes, that's a mushroom cloud in the center of the picture. Irradiating all those fifties era gangsters and gamblers and leaving a good part of the Nevada desert off limits for a long time to come.

This one comes courtesy of the November 1951 issue of Life Magazine.