Survival Town
Nuclear test site mock town
State: Nevada
County: Nye County
Founded: 1955
Survival Town was built to be destroyed—a mock American town with furnished homes and mannequin families, nuked during 'Operation Teapot' in 1955 to test civil defense preparations. Some houses survived the blast and still stand in the restricted Nevada Test Site. America's Pripyat.
Quick Facts
- Mannequins wore J.C. Penney clothes for realism
- Houses were furnished with food in refrigerators
- Footage became iconic Cold War imagery
- Some houses SURVIVED the nuclear blast and still stand
Location
Address: Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada
Coordinates: 37.0667, -116.0333