In the 1950s, atomic trials at the Nevada National Security Site, just 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) from Las Vegas, became an attraction of the hotels and casinos to the north of the gambling capital. Atomic mushrooms were actually visible from the resorts.
The sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese was an investment made by the American military-industrial complex to show who effectively won World War II and, most of all, who would win in following wars — that is, who would reign supreme over the world.