Historical Photos To Blow Your Mind: New Release!

Survival Town

When the U.S. government was conducting nuclear tests in the 1950s, they constructed a town of mannequins. This was done for the sole purpose of find out out what would happen to them if the big bomb were to drop.

The eerie mannequin tests were carefully set up for the sole purpose of being destroyed, and they often were staged just like people enjoying dinner with their family, watching television, or children playing outside. The Nevada test site, known as “Survival Town” is now open for tours. Tests ended in the early 1990s, which wasn’t so long ago at all.