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The Cold War following World War II brought above ground atomic testing to the desert outside of Las Vegas. Talented scientists and their support teams poured into town. Scheduled bomb blasts became a regular fact of life to the residents and reason for a party for the hotels. Children were waken in the pre-dawn hours to go outside and see history being made, the Strip and Fremont Street hotels held viewing parties and residents got used to the ground shaking and a mushroom cloud rising above the horizon.