Atomic tourism is a recent form of tourism in which visitors learn about the Atomic Age by traveling to significant sites in atomic history such as museums with atomic weapons , missile silos , vehicles that carried atomic weapons or sites where atomic weapons were detonated . In the United States , the Center for Land Use Interpretation has conducted tours of the Nevada Test Site , Trinity Site , Hanford Site , and other historical atomic age sites , to explore the cultural significance of these Cold War nuclear zones . The book '' Overlook : Exploring the Internal Fringes of America '' describes the purpose of this tourism as " windows into the American psyche , landmarks that manifest the rich ambiguities of the nation 's cultural history . " A Bureau of Atomic Tourism was proposed by American photographer Richard Misrach and writer Myriam Weisang Misrach in 1990
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